My
highlighted verses:Colossians 2:6 As ye have therefore received Christ
Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
7 Rooted and
built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding
therein with thanksgiving.
8 Beware lest
any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition
of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
9 For in him
dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
10 And ye
are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
11 In whom
also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting
off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
12 Buried
with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith
of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
13 And you,
being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened
together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
14 Blotting
out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary
to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
15 And having
spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing
over them in it
Colossians 2:16 Let no
man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday,
or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
17 Which are a shadow
of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
18 Let no man beguile you of your reward
in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those
things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
19 And not holding the Head, from which
all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit
together, increaseth with the increase of God.
20 Wherefore if ye be
dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living
in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
21 (Touch not; taste not;
handle not;
22 Which all are to perish
with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
23 Which things have indeed
a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body;
not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.
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