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Colosenses 2

La Biblia de las Américas (Español) BLA

1 Porque quiero que sepáis qué gran lucha tengo por vosotros y por los que están en Laodicea, y por todos los que no me han visto en persona,

2 para que sean alentados sus corazones, y unidos en amor, alcancen todas las riquezas que proceden de una plena seguridad de comprensión, resultando en un verdadero conocimiento del misterio de Dios, es decir, de Cristo,

3 en quien están escondidos todos los tesoros de la sabiduría y del conocimiento.

4 Esto lo digo para que nadie os engañe con razonamientos persuasivos.

5 Porque aunque estoy ausente en el cuerpo, sin embargo estoy con vosotros en espíritu, regocijándome al ver vuestra buena disciplina y la estabilidad de vuestra fe en Cristo.

6 Por tanto, de la manera que recibisteis a Cristo Jesús el Señor, así andad en El;

7 firmemente arraigados y edificados en El y confirmados en vuestra fe, tal como fuisteis instruidos, rebosando de gratitud.

8 Mirad que nadie os haga cautivos por medio de su filosofía y vanas sutilezas, según la tradición de los hombres, conforme a los principios elementales del mundo y no según Cristo.

9 Porque toda la plenitud de la Deidad reside corporalmente en El,

10 y habéis sido hechos completos en El, que es la cabeza sobre todo poder y autoridad;

11 en El también fuisteis circuncidados con una circuncisión no hecha por manos, al quitar el cuerpo de la carne mediante la circuncisión de Cristo;

12 habiendo sido sepultados con El en el bautismo, en el cual también habéis resucitado con El por la fe en la acción del poder de Dios, que le resucitó de entre los muertos.

13 Y cuando estabais muertos en vuestros delitos y en la incircuncisión de vuestra carne, os dio vida juntamente con El, habiéndonos perdonado todos los delitos,

14 habiendo cancelado el documento de deuda que consistía en decretos contra nosotros y que nos era adverso, y lo ha quitado de en medio, clavándolo en la cruz.

15 Y habiendo despojado a los poderes y autoridades, hizo de ellos un espectáculo público, triunfando sobre ellos por medio de El.

16 Por tanto, que nadie se constituya en vuestro juez con respecto a comida o bebida, o en cuanto a día de fiesta, o luna nueva, o día de reposo;

17 cosas que sólo son sombra de lo que ha de venir, pero el cuerpo pertenece a Cristo.

18 Nadie os defraude de vuestro premio deleitándose en la humillación de sí mismo y en la adoración de los ángeles, basándose en las visiones que ha visto, hinchado sin causa por su mente carnal,

19 pero no asiéndose a la Cabeza, de la cual todo el cuerpo, nutrido y unido por las coyunturas y ligamentos, crece con un crecimiento que es de Dios.

20 Si habéis muerto con Cristo a los principios elementales del mundo, ¿por qué, como si aún vivierais en el mundo, os sometéis a preceptos tales como:

21 no manipules, ni gustes, ni toques

22 (todos los cuales se refieren a cosas destinadas a perecer con el uso), según los preceptos y enseñanzas de los hombres?

23 Tales cosas tienen a la verdad, la apariencia de sabiduría en una religión humana, en la humillación de sí mismo y en el trato severo del cuerpo, pero carecen de valor alguno contra los apetitos de la carne.

The Message Bible MSG

1 I want you to realize that I continue to work as hard as I know how for you, and also for the Christians over at Laodicea. Not many of you have met me face-to-face, but that doesn't make any difference. Know that I'm on your side, right alongside you. You're not in this alone.

2 I want you woven into a tapestry of love, in touch with everything there is to know of God. Then you will have minds confident and at rest, focused on Christ, God's great mystery.

3 All the richest treasures of wisdom and knowledge are embedded in that mystery and nowhere else. And we've been shown the mystery!

4 I'm telling you this because I don't want anyone leading you off on some wild-goose chase, after other so-called mysteries, or "the Secret."

5 I'm a long way off, true, and you may never lay eyes on me, but believe me, I'm on your side, right beside you. I am delighted to hear of the careful and orderly ways you conduct your affairs, and impressed with the solid substance of your faith in Christ.

6 My counsel for you is simple and straightforward: Just go ahead with what you've been given. You received Christ Jesus, the Master; now live him.

7 You're deeply rooted in him. You're well constructed upon him. You know your way around the faith. Now do what you've been taught. School's out; quit studying the subject and start living it! And let your living spill over into thanksgiving.

8 Watch out for people who try to dazzle you with big words and intellectual double-talk. They want to drag you off into endless arguments that never amount to anything. They spread their ideas through the empty traditions of human beings and the empty superstitions of spirit beings. But that's not the way of Christ.

9 Everything of God gets expressed in him, so you can see and hear him clearly. You don't need a telescope, a microscope, or a horoscope to realize the fullness of Christ, and the emptiness of the universe without him.

10 When you come to him, that fullness comes together for you, too. His power extends over everything.

11 Entering into this fullness is not something you figure out or achieve. It's not a matter of being circumcised or keeping a long list of laws. No, you're already in - insiders - not through some secretive initiation rite but rather through what Christ has already gone through for you, destroying the power of sin.

12 If it's an initiation ritual you're after, you've already been through it by submitting to baptism. Going under the water was a burial of your old life; coming up out of it was a resurrection, God raising you from the dead as he did Christ.

13 When you were stuck in your old sin-dead life, you were incapable of responding to God. God brought you alive - right along with Christ! Think of it! All sins forgiven,

14 the slate wiped clean, that old arrest warrant canceled and nailed to Christ's Cross.

15 He stripped all the spiritual tyrants in the universe of their sham authority at the Cross and marched them naked through the streets.

16 So don't put up with anyone pressuring you in details of diet, worship services, or holy days.

17 All those things are mere shadows cast before what was to come; the substance is Christ.

18 Don't tolerate people who try to run your life, ordering you to bow and scrape, insisting that you join their obsession with angels and that you seek out visions. They're a lot of hot air, that's all they are.

19 They're completely out of touch with the source of life, Christ, who puts us together in one piece, whose very breath and blood flow through us. He is the Head and we are the body. We can grow up healthy in God only as he nourishes us.

20 So, then, if with Christ you've put all that pretentious and infantile religion behind you, why do you let yourselves be bullied by it?

21 "Don't touch this! Don't taste that! Don't go near this!"

22 Do you think things that are here today and gone tomorrow are worth that kind of attention?

23 Such things sound impressive if said in a deep enough voice. They even give the illusion of being pious and humble and ascetic. But they're just another way of showing off, making yourselves look important.