7Rootedand built upinhim,andstablishedin the faith,as ye have been taught , aboundingthereinwiththanksgiving.8Bewarelest any manspoilyouthroughphilosophyandvaindeceit,after the tradition of men,after the rudimentsa of the world,andnotafterChrist.9Forinhimdwellethall the fulness of the Godheadbodily.10And ye arecompleteinhim,whichis the head of allprincipalityandpower:11Inwhomalso ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands,in putting off the body of the sins of the fleshby the circumcision of Christ:12
Buried withhiminbaptism,whereinalso ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God,who hath raisedhimfrom the dead.13Andyou,beingdeadin your sinsand the uncircumcision of yourflesh, hath he quickened togetherwithhim, having forgivenyoualltrespasses;14
Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was againstus,whichwascontrary to us,andtookit out of the way,nailingit to his cross;15
And having spoiledprincipalitiesandpowers, he made a shew of themopenly , triumphing overtheminit.b16Letnomanthereforejudgeyouinmeat,corindrink,orinrespect of an holyday,or of the new moon,or of the sabbath days:
17Whichare a shadow of things to come ; but the body is of Christ.
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