New American Standard Bible 2020

Colossians 2:4-9

4 1I say this so that no one will deceive you with 2persuasive arguments. 5For even though I am 3absent in body, I am nevertheless with you in spirit, rejoicing 4to see 5your 6orderly manner and the 7stability of your faith in Christ.

6Therefore, as you have received 8Christ Jesus the Lord, so 9 10walk in Him, 7having been firmly 11rooted and now being 12built up in Him and 13established 14in 15your faith, just as you 16were instructed, and overflowing 17with gratitude.

8 18See to it that there is no one who takes you captive through 19philosophy and empty deception in accordance with human tradition, in accordance with the 20elementary principles of the world, 21rather than in accordance with Christ. 9For in Him all the 22fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form,

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Notes

1. Colossians 2:4 Eph 4:17 ↩
2. Colossians 2:4 Rom 16:18 ↩
3. Colossians 2:5 1 Cor 5:3 ↩
4. Colossians 2:5 Lit and seeing ↩
5. Colossians 2:5 Or your good order ↩
6. Colossians 2:5 1 Cor 14:40 ↩
7. Colossians 2:5 1 Pet 5:9 ↩
8. Colossians 2:6 Gal 3:26 ↩
9. Colossians 2:6 Or lead your life ↩
10. Colossians 2:6 Col 1:10 ↩
11. Colossians 2:7 Eph 3:17 ↩
12. Colossians 2:7 1 Cor 3:9; Eph 2:20 ↩
13. Colossians 2:7 1 Cor 1:8 ↩
14. Colossians 2:7 Or by ↩
15. Colossians 2:7 Or the faith ↩
16. Colossians 2:7 Eph 4:21 ↩
17. Colossians 2:7 One early ms in it with ↩
18. Colossians 2:8 1 Cor 8:9; 10:12; Gal 5:15; Heb 3:12 ↩
19. Colossians 2:8 Eph 5:6; Col 2:23; 1 Tim 6:20 ↩
20. Colossians 2:8 Gal 4:3; Col 2:20 ↩
21. Colossians 2:8 Lit and not ↩
22. Colossians 2:9 2 Cor 5:19; Col 1:19 ↩

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