The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
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8 Watch out, so that no one will take you captive by means of philosophy and empty deceit, following human tradition which accords with the elemental spirits of the world but does not accord with the Messiah.
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See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.
9 For in him, bodily, lives the fullness of all that God is.
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For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,
10 And it is in union with him that you have been made full - he is the head of every rule and authority.
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and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority.
11 Also it was in union with him that you were circumcised with a circumcision not done by human hands, but accomplished by stripping away the old nature's control over the body. In this circumcision done by the Messiah,
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In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh was put off when you were circumcised by Christ,
12 you were buried along with him by being immersed; and in union with him, you were also raised up along with him by God's faithfulness that worked when he raised Yeshua from the dead.
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having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
13 You were dead because of your sins, that is, because of your "foreskin," your old nature. But God made you alive along with the Messiah by forgiving you all your sins.
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When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,
14 He wiped away the bill of charges against us. Because of the regulations, it stood as a testimony against us; but he removed it by nailing it to the execution-stake.
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having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.
15 Stripping the rulers and authorities of their power, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by means of the stake.
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And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
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