Colossians 2:1-10

1 For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you, for those in Laodicea, and for all who have not seen me in person.
2 [I want] their hearts to be encouraged and joined together in love, so that they may have all the riches of assured understanding, and have the knowledge of God's mystery-Christ.[a]
3 In Him all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

Christ versus the Colossian Heresy

4 I am saying this so that no one will deceive you with persuasive arguments.
5 For I may be absent in body, but I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the strength of your faith in Christ.
6 Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in Him,
7 rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
8 Be careful that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit based on human tradition, based on the elemental forces of the world, and not based on Christ.
9 For in Him the entire fullness of God's nature[b] dwells bodily,[c]
10 and you have been filled by Him, who is the head over every ruler and authority.

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Footnotes 3

  • [a]. Other mss read mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ; other ms variations exist on this v.
  • [b]. Or the deity
  • [c]. Or nature lives in a human body
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