1 For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for
2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and
3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit,
6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in
7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have
8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit,
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
11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without
12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him
13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your
14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which
15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them
16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of
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
19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands
20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world,
21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and
23 Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and