Colossians 2

1 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,

But I wish you to know what an agony I have for you and for those who are in Laodikia, and for the rest who have not seen my person in the flesh;

2 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,

that their hearts may be comforted, and that they may approach in love to all the riches of assurance, and to the understanding of the knowledge of the mystery of Aloha the Father and of the Meshiha,

3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and of knowledge.

4 I say this so that no one will deceive you by smooth rhetoric.

But this I say, Let no man deceive you with the persuasion of words.

5 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.

For though in the flesh I am far from you, yet in the spirit I am with you; and I rejoice to behold your order, and the firmness of your faith in the Meshiha.

6 Therefore, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in Him,

As, then, you have received Jeshu Meshiha our Lord, (so) in him walk,

7 rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

your roots strengthened, and you builded in him, and established in that faith which you have learned, that you may abound therein with thanksgiving.

8 See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.

Beware lest any man strip you by philosophy and by vain deceit, according to the teaching of men, and according to the principles of the world, and not according to the Meshiha,

9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.

in whom dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

10 And you have been made complete in Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.

And in him also you are complete; for he is the head of all principalities and powers.

11 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.

And in him you have been circumcised with the circumcision which is not with hands, by the putting away of the flesh of sins, (even) by the circumcision of the Meshiha.

12 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.

And you have been buried with him by baptism, and in him have risen with him, who have believed in the power of Aloha who raised him from among the dead.

13 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,

And you who were dead in your sins, and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he hath made alive with him, and forgiven us all our sins;

14 having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!

and hath blotted out in his mandates the writing of our debts that was against us, and hath taken it from the midst, and affixed it to his cross;

15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

and by the yielding up of his body he hath prostrated principalities and powers, and hath shamed them openly by himself.

16 Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.

LET no man therefore judge you in meat and in drink, or in the distinctions of festivals, and of new moons, and of shabeths,

17 These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.

which are shadows of those to come, but the body is the Meshiha.

18 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.

And lest any man wish by abasement of mind to fetter you to be subject to the worship of angels, intruding upon that which he hath not seen, and vainly inflated in his fleshly mind;

19 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.

and not holding the Head, from whom all the body is composed and constituted in joints and limbs, and increaseth (with) the increase of Aloha.

20 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:

For if you are dead with the Meshiha from the principles of the world, why as if you lived in the world are you judged? as that

21 “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”?

you are not to touch, nor to taste, nor to handle?

22 These will all perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings.

For these are of perishable use, and are ordinances and doctrines of men;

23 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.

and appear to have in them a reason of wisdom, with the look of humility and the fear of Aloha, (as) not sparing the body, (yet) not in that which is (really) of value, but in those (things) whose use pertains to the flesh.