from Crossway1For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, (Php 1:30; Col 1:29)2that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ, (Eph 6:22; Col 1:27; Col 3:14; Col 4:8)3in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. (Isa 11:2; Isa 45:3; Lu 11:49; 1Co 1:24; 1Co 1:30; 1Co 2:6; Eph 1:8)4I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. (Ro 16:18; Eph 5:6; 2Pe 2:3)5For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. (1Co 5:3; 1Co 14:40; 1Pe 5:9)
Alive in Christ
6Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, (Col 1:10; 1Th 4:1)7rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. (Ac 20:32; 1Co 3:9; Eph 2:20; Eph 3:17; Eph 4:21; Eph 5:20; Col 4:2; Heb 13:9)8See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits[1] of the world, and not according to Christ. (Mt 15:2; Eph 5:6; Col 2:20; 1Ti 6:20)9For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, (Joh 1:14; Col 1:19; Col 2:17)10and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. (Eph 1:21; Eph 3:19)11In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, (Ro 2:29; Eph 2:11; Col 2:15; Col 3:9)12having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. (Ac 2:24; Ro 6:4; Ro 6:5; 1Co 6:14; Eph 1:19; Col 3:1)13And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, (Eph 2:1; Eph 2:5)14by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. (Ac 3:19; Ro 7:4)15He disarmed the rulers and authorities[2] and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.[3] (Ge 3:15; Ps 68:18; Isa 53:12; Mt 12:29; Lu 10:18; Joh 12:31; Joh 16:11; Eph 2:16; Eph 4:8; Col 2:11; Heb 2:14)
Let No One Disqualify You
16Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. (Le 11:2; Le 23:2; Nu 28:11; Mr 2:28; Ro 14:3; Ro 14:5; Ro 14:10; Ro 14:13; Ro 14:17; Heb 9:10)17These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. (Col 2:2; Heb 8:5; Heb 10:1)18Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions,[4] puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind, (Eze 13:7; Ro 8:7; 1Co 9:24; Eph 4:17; Col 2:23; 1Ti 1:7)19and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God. (Eph 4:15; Re 2:13; Re 3:11)20If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations— (Ro 6:2; Ga 4:9; Col 2:8)21“Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch” (Col 2:16; 1Ti 4:3)22(referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to human precepts and teachings? (Isa 29:13; Mt 15:9; 1Co 6:13; Tit 1:14)23These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh. (Col 2:18; 1Ti 4:8)
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圣经当代译本修订版
from Biblica1我希望你们知道，为了你们和老底嘉人，以及许多从未和我见过面的人，我是怎样努力奋斗的，2为要使你们众人心受鼓励，联结在爱里，有丰富笃定的真知灼见，可以认识上帝的奥秘。这奥秘就是基督，3一切智慧和知识都蕴藏在祂里面。4我讲这番话是为了防止有人用花言巧语迷惑你们。5现在，我人虽不在你们那里，心却和你们在一起，看到你们生活井然有序，对基督坚信不移，我很喜乐。