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1. Absent in Body, Present in Spirit

   (Revelation 3:14–22)

2. 1MURAnd I wish you to know, what a struggle I have for you, and for them of Laodicea, and for the others who have not seen my face in the flesh;BSBBSB: For I want you to know how much I am struggling for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not met me face to face,
3. 2MURthat their hearts may be comforted, and that they, by love, may come to all the riches of assurance, and to the understanding of the knowledge of the mystery of God the Father, and of the Messiah,BSBBSB: that they may be encouraged in heart, knit together in love, and filled with the full riches of complete understanding, so that they may know the mystery of God, namely Christ,
4. 3MURin whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and of knowledge.BSBBSB: in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
5. 4MURAnd this I say, lest any one should mislead you by the persuasiveness of words.BSBBSB: I say this so that no one will deceive you by smooth rhetoric.
6. 5MURFor though I am separated from you in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit; and I rejoice at beholding your good order, and the stability of your faith in the Messiah.BSBBSB: For although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I delight to see your orderly condition and firm faith in Christ.

7. Alive with Christ

   (Ephesians 2:1–10)

8. 6MURAs therefore ye have received Jesus the Messiah our Lord, walk ye in him,BSBBSB: Therefore, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in Him,
9. 7MURstrengthening your roots and building up yourselves in him, and establishing yourselves in the faith which ye have learned, in which may ye abound in thanksgiving.BSBBSB: rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
10. 8MURBeware, lest any man make you naked by philosophy, and by vain deception, according to the doctrines of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to the Messiah,BSBBSB: See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.
11. 9MURin whom dwelleth all the fullness of the Divinity corporeally.BSBBSB: For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.
12. 10MURAnd in him ye are also complete, because he is the head of all principalities and authorities.BSBBSB: And you have been made complete in Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.
13. 11MURAnd in him ye have been circumcised with a circumcision without hands, by casting off the flesh of sins, by a circumcision of the Messiah.BSBBSB: In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands.
14. 12MURAnd ye have been buried with him, by baptism; and by it ye have risen with him; while ye believed in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.BSBBSB: And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.
15. 13MURAnd you, who were dead in your sins, and by the uncircumcision of your flesh, he hath vivified with him; and he hath forgiven us all our sins:BSBBSB: When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,
16. 14MURand, by his mandates, he blotted out the handwriting of our debts, which handwriting existed against us, and took it from the midst, and affixed it to his cross.BSBBSB: having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!
17. 15MURAnd, by yielding up his body, he showed contempt for principalities and authorities; and put them to shame, openly, in his own person.BSBBSB: And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
18. 16MURLet no one therefore disquiet you about food and drink, or about the distinctions of festivals, and new moons, and sabbaths;BSBBSB: Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.
19. 17MURwhich were shadows of the things then future; but the body is the Messiah.BSBBSB: These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.
20. 18MURAnd let no one wish, by abasing the mind, to bring you under bonds, that ye subject yourselves to the worship of angels; while he is prying into that which he hath not seen, and is vainly inflated in his fleshly mind,BSBBSB: Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up without basis by his unspiritual mind.
21. 19MURand holdeth not the head, from which the whole body is framed and constructed, with joints and members, and groweth with the growth given of God.BSBBSB: He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.
22. 20MURFor if ye are dead with the Messiah from the rudiments of the world, why are ye judged as if ye were living in the world?BSBBSB: If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:
23. 21MURBut, touch thou not, and taste thou not, and handle thou not:BSBBSB: “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”?
24. 22MURfor these things perish in the using; and they are the commandments and doctrines of men.BSBBSB: These will all perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings.
25. 23MURAnd they seem to have a kind of wisdom, in a show of humility, and of the fear of God, and of not sparing the body; not in any thing of excellence, but in things subservient to the body.BSBBSB: Such restrictions indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-prescribed worship, their false humility, and their harsh treatment of the body; but they are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.

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