Common English Bible CEB
New Revised Standard NRS
6 So live in Christ Jesus the Lord in the same way as you received him.
6
As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, continue to live your lives in him,
7 Be rooted and built up in him, be established in faith, and overflow with thanksgiving just as you were taught.
7
rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
8 See to it that nobody enslaves you with philosophy and foolish deception, which conform to human traditions and the way the world thinks and acts rather than Christ.
8
See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the universe, and not according to Christ.
9 All the fullness of deity lives in Christ's body.
9
For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,
10 And you have been filled by him, who is the head of every ruler and authority.
10
and you have come to fullness in him, who is the head of every ruler and authority.
11 You were also circumcised by him. This wasn't performed by human hands—the whole body was removed through this circumcision by Christ.
11
In him also you were circumcised with a spiritual circumcision, by putting off the body of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ;
12 You were buried with him through baptism and raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.
12
when you were buried with him in baptism, you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.
13 When you were dead because of the things you had done wrong and because your body wasn't circumcised, God made you alive with Christ and forgave all the things you had done wrong.
13
And when you were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive together with him, when he forgave us all our trespasses,
14 He destroyed the record of the debt we owed, with its requirements that worked against us. He canceled it by nailing it to the cross.
14
erasing the record that stood against us with its legal demands. He set this aside, nailing it to the cross.
15 When he disarmed the rulers and authorities, he exposed them to public disgrace by leading them in a triumphal parade.
15
He disarmed the rulers and authorities and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in it.
Copyright © 2011 Common English Bible
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.