1 GLT For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and the ones at Laodicea and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh BSB BSB: 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,
2 GLT so that their hearts might be encouraged, having been brought together in love and into all the riches of the full assurance of understanding, into knowledge of the mystery of God, Christ, BSB BSB: 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,
3 GLT in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden. BSB BSB: in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
4 GLT I say this so that no one might deceive you with persuasive speech. BSB BSB: I say this so that no one will deceive you by smooth rhetoric.
5 GLT For even if I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your good order and the strength of your faith in Christ. BSB BSB: 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.
6 GLT Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him, BSB BSB: Therefore, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in Him,
7 GLT being rooted and built up in him and confirmed in the faith just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. BSB BSB: rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
9 GLT For in him all the fullness of deity dwells in bodily form, BSB BSB: For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.
10 GLT and you are filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority, BSB BSB: And you have been made complete in Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.
11 GLT in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands in the removal of the body of flesh in the circumcision of Christ, BSB BSB: 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.
12 GLT having been buried with him in baptism and in whom you were raised up through faith in the power of God, the one having raised him from the dead. BSB BSB: 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.
13 GLT And you, being dead in the trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all of our trespasses, BSB BSB: 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,
14 GLT having canceled the written record of the decrees against us, which were opposed to us, and he has taken{ it} out from our midst, having nailed it to the cross; BSB BSB: having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!
17 GLT which are a shadow of the things coming, but the body{ is} of Christ. BSB BSB: These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.
18 GLT Let no one delighting in false humility and worship of the angels deprive you of your prize, standing on things he has seen, becoming puffed up without cause by the mind of his flesh BSB BSB: 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.
19 GLT and not holding fast to the head, from which the whole body, being supplied and held together through the joints and ligaments, grows with the growth from God. BSB BSB: 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.
20 GLT If you died with Christ from the elemental principles of the world, why, as living in the world, are you being subjected to its decrees: BSB BSB: 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:
21 GLT “You may not handle, nor taste, nor touch!” BSB BSB: “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”?
22 GLT which are all for destruction with the use, according to the commands and teachings of men; BSB BSB: These will all perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings.
23 GLT which, having indeed a word of wisdom in self- made religion and false humility{ and} severity of the body, are not of any value against indulgence of the flesh. BSB BSB: 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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