Colossians 2
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New American Standard Bible 1995

Colossians 2:6-13

6Therefore as you have received 1Christ Jesus the Lord, so 23walk in Him, 7having been firmly 4rooted and now being 5built up in Him and 6established 7in your faith, just as you 8were instructed, and overflowing 9with gratitude.

810See to it that no one takes you captive through 11philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the 12elementary principles of the world, 13rather than according to Christ. 9For in Him all the 14fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, 10and in Him you have been 15made 16complete, and 17He is the head 18over all 19rule and authority; 11and in Him 20you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of 21the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ; 12having been 22buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also 23raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who 24raised Him from the dead. 13When you were 25dead 26in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He 27made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions,

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Notes

  1. 1. Colossians 2:6 Gal 3:26 ↩
  2. 2. Colossians 2:6 Or lead your life ↩
  3. 3. Colossians 2:6 Col 1:10 ↩
  4. 4. Colossians 2:7 Eph 3:17 ↩
  5. 5. Colossians 2:7 1 Cor 3:9; Eph 2:20 ↩
  6. 6. Colossians 2:7 1 Cor 1:8 ↩
  7. 7. Colossians 2:7 Or by ↩
  8. 8. Colossians 2:7 Eph 4:21 ↩
  9. 9. Colossians 2:7 One early ms reads in it with ↩
  10. 10. Colossians 2:8 1 Cor 8:9; 10:12; Gal 5:15; Heb 3:12 ↩
  11. 11. Colossians 2:8 Eph 5:6; Col 2:23; 1 Tim 6:20 ↩
  12. 12. Colossians 2:8 Gal 4:3; Col 2:20 ↩
  13. 13. Colossians 2:8 Lit and not ↩
  14. 14. Colossians 2:9 2 Cor 5:19; Col 1:19 ↩
  15. 15. Colossians 2:10 Eph 3:19 ↩
  16. 16. Colossians 2:10 Lit full ↩
  17. 17. Colossians 2:10 Eph 1:21f ↩
  18. 18. Colossians 2:10 Lit of ↩
  19. 19. Colossians 2:10 1 Cor 15:24; Eph 3:10; Col 2:15 ↩
  20. 20. Colossians 2:11 Rom 2:29; Eph 2:11 ↩
  21. 21. Colossians 2:11 Rom 6:6; 7:24; Gal 5:24; Col 3:5 ↩
  22. 22. Colossians 2:12 Rom 6:4f ↩
  23. 23. Colossians 2:12 Rom 6:5; Eph 2:6; Col 2:13; 3:1 ↩
  24. 24. Colossians 2:12 Acts 2:24 ↩
  25. 25. Colossians 2:13 Eph 2:1 ↩
  26. 26. Colossians 2:13 Or by reason of ↩
  27. 27. Colossians 2:13 Eph 2:5; Col 2:12 ↩

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