Colossians 2:2-10

2I want all the believers to become strong in their spirits. I want them to help each other because they love one another. Then God will bless them very much, because they understand God's secret message very well. They will be completely sure of it. And they will know Christ himself, who is God's secret.

3Christ is the one who holds everything that makes people wise. He helps people to know the true message that God had hidden.

4I am telling you these things so that false teachers will not deceive you. They may teach ideas that seem good, but do not listen to them.

5My body is not there with you, but I think about you a lot. I hear that you are living and working well together. I also hear that you continue to trust Christ strongly. That makes me very happy.

6You have accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord. So remember that you belong to him as you live your lives.

7Get your strength from Christ himself, so that you become stronger and stronger. Continue to believe the true message that we taught you. And thank God very much for everything.

8Be careful that you do not believe any false teachers. The ideas that they teach may seem clever. But they really want to deceive you. They are ideas that have come from the human minds of our ancestors. Or ideas that come from spirits that belong to this world. They are not the true message about Christ.

9The whole nature of God himself lives in Christ, in his human body.

10And because you are united with Christ, you are now complete. He is the one who rules over everything that has power or authority.