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 in how severe a struggle I am engaged on behalf of you and the brethren in Laodicea and of all who have not known me personally,
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.
in order that their hearts may be cheered, they themselves being welded together in love and enjoying all the advantages of a reasonable certainty, till at last they attain the full knowledge of God's truth, which is Christ Himself.
3 No qual estão escondidos todos os thesouros da sabedoria e da sciencia.
In Him all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are stored up, hidden from view.
4 E digo isto, para que ninguem vos engane com palavras persuasivas na apparencia.
I say this to prevent your being misled by any one's plausible sophistry.
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 although, as you say, I am absent from you in body, yet in spirit I am present with you and am delighted to witness your good discipline and the solid front presented by your faith in Christ.
6 Pois, como recebestes o Senhor Jesus Christo, assim tambem andae n'elle,
As therefore you have received the Christ, even Jesus our Lord, live and act in vital union with Him;
7 Arraigados e sobreedificados n'elle, e confirmados na fé, assim como fostes ensinados, abundando em acção de graças.
having the roots of your being firmly planted in Him, and continually building yourselves up in Him, and always being increasingly confirmed in the faith as you were taught it, and abounding 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 there be some one who leads you away as prisoners by means of his philosophy and idle fancies, following human traditions and the world's crude notions instead of following Christ.
9 Porque n'elle habita corporalmente toda a plenitude da divindade;
For it is in Christ that the fulness of God's nature dwells embodied, and in Him you are made complete,
10 E n'elle estaes perfeitos, o qual é a cabeça de todo o principado e potestade:
and He is the Lord of all princes and rulers.
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 performed by hand, when you threw off your sinful nature in true Christian circumcision;
12 Sepultados com elle no baptismo, no qual tambem resuscitastes com elle pela fé no poder de Deus, que o resuscitou dos mortos.
having been buried with Him in your baptism, in which you were also raised with Him through faith produced within you by God who raised Him from among 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 to you--dead as you once were in your transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your natural state--He has nevertheless given Life with Himself, having forgiven 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.
The bond, with its requirements, which was in force against us and was hostile to us, He cancelled, and cleared it out of the way, nailing it to His Cross.
15 E, despojando os principados e potestades, os expoz publicamente á vergonha, e triumphou d'elles por ella.
And the hostile princes and rulers He shook off from Himself, and boldly displayed them as His conquests, when by the Cross He triumphed over them.
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 suffer no one to sit in judgement on you as to eating or drinking or with regard to a festival, a new moon or a sabbath.
17 Que são sombras das coisas futuras, mas o corpo é de Christo.
These were a shadow of things that were soon 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 one defraud you of your prize, priding himself on his humility and on his worship of the angels, and taking his stand on the visions he has seen, and idly puffed up with his unspiritual thoughts.
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.
Such a one does not keep his hold upon Christ, the Head, from whom the Body, in all its parts nourished and strengthened by its points of contact and its connections, 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 have died with Christ and have escaped from the world's rudimentary notions, why, as though your life still belonged to the world, do you submit to such precepts as
21 Taes como: não toques, não proves, não manuseis:
"Do not handle this;" "Do not taste that;" "Do not touch that other thing" --
22 As quaes coisas todas perecem pelo uso, segundo os preceitos e doutrinas dos homens;
referring to things which are all intended to be used up and perish--in obedience to mere human injunctions and teachings?
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
These rules have indeed an appearance of wisdom where self-imposed worship exists, and an affectation of humility and an ascetic severity. But not one of them is of any value in combating the indulgence of our lower natures.
