Colossians 2
1 And I wish you to know, what a struggle I have for you, and for them of Laodicea, and for the others who have not seen my face in the flesh;
PORQUE quiero que sepais cuan gran solicitud tengo por vosotros, y [por] los [que están] en Laodicéa, y [por] todos los que nunca vieron mi rostro en carne,
2 that their hearts may be comforted, and that they, by love, may come to all the riches of assurance, and to the understanding of the knowledge of the mystery of God the Father, and of the Messiah,
Para que sean confortados sus corazones, unidos en amor, y en todas riquezas de cumplido entendimiento, para conocer el misterio de Dios, y del Padre, y de Cristo;
3 in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and of knowledge.
En el cual están escondidos todos los tesoros de sabiduría y conocimiento.
4 And this I say, lest any one should mislead you by the persuasiveness of words.
Y esto digo, para que nadie os engañe con palabras persuasivas.
5 For though I am separated from you in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit; and I rejoice at beholding your good order, and the stability of your faith in the Messiah.
Porque aunque estoy ausente con el cuerpo, no obstante con el espíritu estoy con vosotros, gozándome y mirando vuestro concierto, y la firmeza de vuestra fé en Cristo.
6 As therefore ye have received Jesus the Messiah our Lord, walk ye in him,
Por tanto de la manera que habeis recibido al Señor Jesu-Cristo, andad en él:
7 strengthening your roots and building up yourselves in him, and establishing yourselves in the faith which ye have learned, in which may ye abound in thanksgiving.
Arraigados y sobreedificados en él, y confirmados en la fé, así como [lo] habeis aprendido, creciendo en ella con hacimiento de gracias.
8 Beware, lest any man make you naked by philosophy, and by vain deception, according to the doctrines of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to the Messiah,
Mirad que ninguno os engañe por filosofías, y vanas sutilezas, segun las tradiciones de los hombres, conforme á los elementos del mundo, y no segun Cristo.
9 in whom dwelleth all the fullness of the Divinity corporeally.
Porque en él habita toda la plenitud de la Divinidad corporalmente:
10 And in him ye are also complete, because he is the head of all principalities and authorities.
Y en él estais cumplidos, el cual es la cabeza de todo principado y potestad:
11 And in him ye have been circumcised with a circumcision without hands, by casting off the flesh of sins, by a circumcision of the Messiah.
En el cual tambien sois circuncidados de circuncision, no hecha con manos, con el despojamiento del cuerpo de los pecados de la carne en la circuncision de Cristo:
12 And ye have been buried with him, by baptism; and by it ye have risen with him; while ye believed in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.
Sepultados juntamente con él en el bautismo, en el cual tambien resucitasteis con [él, ] por la fe de la operacion de Dios que le levantó de los muertos.
13 And you, who were dead in your sins, and by the uncircumcision of your flesh, he hath vivified with him; and he hath forgiven us all our sins:
Y á vosotros, estando muertos en pecados y [en] la incircuncision de vuestra carne, os vivifico juntamente con él, perdonándoos todos los pecados,
14 and, by his mandates, he blotted out the handwriting of our debts, which handwriting existed against us, and took it from the midst, and affixed it to his cross.
Rayendo la cédula de los ritos que nos era contraria, que era contra nosotros, quitándola de en medio y enclavándola en la cruz;
15 And, by yielding up his body, he showed contempt for principalities and authorities; and put them to shame, openly, in his own person.
Y despojando los principados y las potestades, sacólos á la vergüenza en público, triunfando de ellos en sí mismo.
16 Let no one therefore disquiet you about food and drink, or about the distinctions of festivals, and new moons, and sabbaths;
Por tanto nadie os juzgue en comida, ó en bebida, ó en parte de dia de fiesta, ó de nueva luna, ó de Sábados:
17 which were shadows of the things then future; but the body is the Messiah.
Lo cual es la sombra de lo [que estaba] por venir; mas el cuerpo [es] de Cristo.
18 And let no one wish, by abasing the mind, to bring you under bonds, that ye subject yourselves to the worship of angels; while he is prying into that which he hath not seen, and is vainly inflated in his fleshly mind,
Nadie os prive de vuestro premio, afectando humildad y culto á los ángeles, metiéndose en lo que no ha visto, vanamente hinchado en el sentido de su propia carne,
19 and holdeth not the head, from which the whole body is framed and constructed, with joints and members, and groweth with the growth given of God.
Y no teniendo la Cabeza, de la cual todo el cuerpo, alimentado y conjunto por [sus] ligaduras y conjunturas, crece en aumento de Dios.
20 For if ye are dead with the Messiah from the rudiments of the world, why are ye judged as if ye were living in the world?
Pues si sois muertos con Cristo cuanto á los rudimentos del mundo, ¿por qué, como si vivieseis al mundo, os someteis á ordenanzas,
21 But, touch thou not, and taste thou not, and handle thou not:
[Tales como] no manejes, ni gustes, ni aun toques,
22 for these things perish in the using; and they are the commandments and doctrines of men.
(Las cuales cosas son todas para destruccion en el uso [mismo, ]) en conformidad á mandamientos y doctrinas de hombres?
23 And they seem to have a kind of wisdom, in a show of humility, and of the fear of God, and of not sparing the body; not in any thing of excellence, but in things subservient to the body.
Tales cosas tienen á la verdad cierta reputacion de sabiduría en culto voluntario, y humildad, y en duro trato del cuerpo; no en alguna honra para el saciar de la carne.
