Colossenses 2
1 Porque quero que saibaes quão grande combate tenho por vós, e pelos que estão em Laodicea, e por quantos não viram o meu rosto em carne;
For I would have you know how great a contest I am waging for you and the brethren in Laodicea, and for all who have never seen my face.
2 Para que os seus corações sejam consolados, e estejam unidos em caridade, e em todas as riquezas da plenitude de intelligencia, para conhecimento do mysterio do Deus e Pae, e do Christo.
May their hearts be comforted! May they be knit together in love! May they gain in all its riches the full assurance of their understanding! May they come to a perfect knowledge of the secret truth of God, which is Christ himself.
3 No qual estão escondidos todos os thesouros da sabedoria e da sciencia.
In Him are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge!
4 E digo isto, para que ninguem vos engane com palavras persuasivas na apparencia.
And this I say, lest any one should mislead you with enticing words.
5 Porque ainda que esteja ausente quanto ao corpo, todavia em espirito estou comvosco, regozijando-me, e vendo a vossa ordem, e a firmeza da vossa fé em Christo.
For though I am absent from you in body, I am with you in spirit, happy to note your discipline and the solid front of your faith in Christ.
6 Pois, como recebestes o Senhor Jesus Christo, assim tambem andae n'elle,
As then you have received Jesus Christ, your Lord, in him live your lives;
7 Arraigados e sobreedificados n'elle, e confirmados na fé, assim como fostes ensinados, abundando em acção de graças.
since you are rooted in him, and in him continually built up. Be firmly established in the faith as you were taught it, and continually abound in it with thanksgiving.
8 Olhae que ninguem vos sobresalte por meio de philosophias e vãs subtilezas, segundo a tradição dos homens, segundo os rudimentos do mundo, e não segundo Christo:
Take care lest any man drag you away captive by his philosophy which is a vain deceit, following the traditions of men and the world’s crude notions, and not Christ.
9 Porque n'elle habita corporalmente toda a plenitude da divindade;
For it is in Christ that all the fullness of deity dwells bodily,
10 E n'elle estaes perfeitos, o qual é a cabeça de todo o principado e potestade:
and in him you have your fulness, and he is the Lord of all the principalities and powers.
11 No qual tambem estaes circumcidados com uma circumcisão não feita por mão no despojo do corpo da carne, na circumcisão de Christo:
In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands; even in putting off your sensual nature in Christ’s own circumcision,
12 Sepultados com elle no baptismo, no qual tambem resuscitastes com elle pela fé no poder de Deus, que o resuscitou dos mortos.
when you were buried with him in baptism. In baptism also you were raised with him, through your faith in the energy of that God who raised him from the dead.
13 E, quando vós estaveis mortos nos peccados, e na incircumcisão da vossa carne, vos vivificou juntamente com elle, perdoando-vos todas as offensas,
And you also, at one time dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sensual nature, he has made alive together with himself. For he forgave us all our transgressions,
14 Havendo riscado a cedula que contra nós havia nas ordenanças, a qual de alguma maneira nos era contraria, e a tirou do meio de nós, encravando-a na cruz.
blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that stood against us and was hostile to us, and took it out of our way, nailing it to his cross.
15 E, despojando os principados e potestades, os expoz publicamente á vergonha, e triumphou d'elles por ella.
Principalities and powers he disarmed, and openly displayed them as his trophies, when he triumphed over them in the cross.
16 Portanto ninguem vos julgue pelo comer, ou pelo beber, ou por causa dos dias de festa, ou da lua nova, ou dos sabbados;
Therefore do not permit any one to sit in judgment on you in regard to what you may eat or drink, or in regard to feast-days or new moons or sabbaths.
17 Que são sombras das coisas futuras, mas o corpo é de Christo.
These were a shadow of things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
18 Ninguem vos domine a seu bel-prazer com pretexto de humildade e culto dos anjos, mettendo-se em coisas que nunca viu; estando debalde inchado no sentido da sua carne;
Let no man at his will defraud you of your prize through his false humility and worship of the angels, taking his stand on the visions he has seen, and vainly puffed up by his material mind;
19 E não estando ligado á cabeça, da qual todo o corpo, provido e organisado pelas juntas e ligaduras, vae crescendo em augmento de Deus.
instead of keeping connection with the Head from the whole body draws nourishment for all its needs by the joints which bind it; and is knit together, and grows with a divine growth.
20 Portanto, se estaes mortos com Christo quanto aos rudimentos do mundo, porque vos carregam ainda de ordenanças, como se vivesseis no mundo?
If you died with Christ to the world’s rudimentary notions, why, as if you still lived in the world, do you submit yourselves to dogmatisms found on teachings and doctrines of men -
21 Taes como: não toques, não proves, não manuseis:
such as "Do not handle this," "You must not taste that," "Do not touch this" -
22 As quaes coisas todas perecem pelo uso, segundo os preceitos e doutrinas dos homens;
all things which are intended to perish in the using?
23 As quaes teem na verdade alguma apparencia de sabedoria, em devoção voluntaria, humildade, e mau tratamento do corpo, mas não são de valor algum para satisfação da carne
For these precepts, although they have a show of wisdom with their self-imposed devotions and fastings and bodily austerities, are of no real value against the indulgence of the carnal appetites.
