1 For I want you to know Phil. 1:30how great a [See ch. 1:29above]struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, 2 that ch. 4:8;Eph. 6:22their hearts may be encouraged, being [ch. 3:14] knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of See ch. 1:27God’s mystery, which is Christ, 3 Isa. 11:2;45:3;1 Cor. 1:24,30;2:6,7;[Luke 11:49;Eph. 1:8]in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 4 I say this in order Rom. 16:18;[Eph. 5:6;2 Pet. 2:3]that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. 5 For 1 Cor. 5:3though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your 1 Cor. 14:40good order and 1 Pet. 5:9the firmness of your faith in Christ.
Alive in Christ
6 ch. 1:10;1 Thess. 4:1Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, 7 Eph. 3:17rooted and Acts 20:32;Eph. 2:20;See 1 Cor. 3:9built up in him and Heb. 13:9established in the faith, just Eph. 4:21as you were taught, abounding ch. 4:2;Eph. 5:20in thanksgiving.
8 See to it that no one takes you captive by [1 Tim. 6:20] philosophy and Eph. 5:6empty deceit, according to See Matt. 15:2human tradition, according to the ver. 20elemental spirits2:8 Or elementary principles; also verse 20 of the world, and not according to Christ. 9 For ch. 1:19;John 1:14in him the whole fullness of deity dwells [ver. 17]bodily, 10 and Eph. 3:19you have been filled in him, who is See Eph. 1:21,22the head of all rule and authority. 11 In him also [Eph. 2:11]; See Rom. 2:29you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by ver. 15;ch. 3:9putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 Rom. 6:4having been buried with him in baptism, in which ch. 3:1;[Rom. 6:5] you were also raised with him through faith in [1 Cor. 6:14]; See Acts 2:24; Eph. 1:19the powerful working of God, [1 Cor. 6:14]; See Acts 2:24; Eph. 1:19who raised him from the dead. 13 See Eph. 2:1And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God See Eph. 2:5made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 by See Acts 3:19canceling See Rom. 7:4the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. 15 [See ver. 11above] He disarmed the rulers and authorities2:15 Probably demonic rulers and authorities and [Gen. 3:15;Ps. 68:18;Isa. 53:12;Matt. 12:29;Luke 10:18;John 12:31;16:11;Eph. 4:8;Heb. 2:14] put them to open shame, by Eph. 2:16triumphing over them in him.2:15 Or in it (that is, the cross)
Let No One Disqualify You
16 Therefore let no one Rom. 14:3,10,13pass judgment on you Rom. 14:17;Heb. 9:10;See Lev. 11:2in questions of food and drink, or with regard to Lev. 23:2;Rom. 14:5a festival or [Mark 2:28]; See Num. 28:11a new moon or a Sabbath. 17 Heb. 8:5;10:1These are a shadow of the things to come, but [ver. 2]the substance belongs to Christ. 18 Let no one 1 Cor. 9:24disqualify you, ver. 23insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, [Ezek. 13:7;1 Tim. 1:7] going on in detail about visions,2:18 Or about the things he has seen[Eph. 4:17] puffed up without reason by [Rom. 8:7]his sensuous mind, 19 and See Eph. 4:15,16not Rev. 2:13;3:11holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.
20 If with Christ See Rom. 6:2you died to the ver. 8elemental spirits of the world, [Gal. 4:9]why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations— 21 ver. 16;1 Tim. 4:3"Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch" 22 (1 Cor. 6:13referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to Isa. 29:13;Matt. 15:9;[Titus 1:14]human precepts and teachings? 23 These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in ver. 18promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are [1 Tim. 4:8]of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.
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