Colossians 2 (NET)

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Colossians 2:1¹For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for those who have not met me face to face.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Col 1:29 Phil 1:30 Col 4:12-13 Rev 3:14-22 Rev 1:11 Acts 20:38 Col 1:24 Hos 12:3-4 1 Pet 1:8 Acts 20:25

Colossians 2:2²My goal is that their hearts, having been knit together in love, may be encouraged, and that they may have all the riches that assurance brings in their understanding of the knowledge of the mystery of God, namely, Christ,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Col 1:27 Col 4:8 Eph 6:22 Rom 16:25 Col 3:14 Col 1:15-17 Eph 3:9-10 Isa 53:11 Phil 2:1 Phil 3:8

Colossians 2:5⁵For though I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your morale and the firmness of your faith in Christ.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 5:3-4 1 Thess 2:17 1 Cor 16:13 1 Pet 5:9 2 Pet 3:17-18 1 Cor 14:40 Heb 3:14 1 Cor 15:58 1 Thess 3:8 Heb 6:19

Colossians 2:8⁸Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you through an empty, deceitful philosophy that is according to human traditions and the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Tim 6:20 Eph 5:6 Matt 7:15 Gal 4:9 1 Cor 3:18-19 Rom 1:21-22 Col 2:20 2 Tim 3:13 Heb 13:9 Jer 29:8

Colossians 2:11¹¹In him you also were circumcised—not, however, with a circumcision performed by human hands, but by the removal of the fleshly body, that is, through the circumcision done by Christ.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rom 2:29 Phil 3:3 Rom 6:6 Deut 30:6 Eph 4:22 Gal 5:24 Col 3:8-9 Gal 2:20 2 Cor 5:17 Deut 10:16

Colossians 2:12¹²Having been buried with him in baptism, you also have been raised with him through your faith in the power of God who raised him from the dead.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rom 6:3-5 1 Pet 3:21 Gal 3:27 Eph 2:4-6 Col 3:1-2 Acts 2:24 Eph 4:5 Eph 1:19-20 Eph 3:17 Rom 4:24

Colossians 2:13¹³And even though you were dead in your transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he nevertheless made you alive with him, having forgiven all your transgressions.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Eph 2:5-6 Rom 8:11 Eph 2:1 2 Cor 5:19 Heb 9:14 2 Cor 3:6 1 John 1:7-9 Eph 2:11 Luke 15:24 Luke 15:32

Colossians 2:14¹⁴He has destroyed what was against us, a certificate of indebtedness expressed in decrees opposed to us. He has taken it away by nailing it to the cross.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Eph 2:14-16 Isa 44:22 Isa 43:25 Heb 8:13 1 Pet 2:24 Col 2:20 Heb 7:18 Heb 10:8-9 Heb 9:9-10 Acts 3:19

Colossians 2:15¹⁵Disarming the rulers and authorities, he has made a public disgrace of them, triumphing over them by the cross.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 2:14 Eph 4:8 Matt 12:29 John 12:31-32 Isa 53:12 Eph 6:12 John 16:11 Luke 10:18 Isa 49:24-25 Rev 20:10

Colossians 2:16¹⁶Therefore do not let anyone judge you with respect to food or drink, or in the matter of a feast, new moon, or Sabbath days—Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rom 14:5-6 Rom 14:10 Gal 4:10 Rom 14:13-17 Rom 14:2-3 Heb 13:9 Ezek 45:17 1 Chr 23:31 Mark 2:27-28 Matt 15:11

Colossians 2:17¹⁷these are only the shadow of the things to come, but the reality is Christ!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 10:1 Heb 8:5 John 1:17 Heb 9:9 Heb 4:1-11 Matt 11:28-29

Colossians 2:18¹⁸Let no one who delights in false humility and the worship of angels pass judgment on you. That person goes on at great lengths about what he has supposedly seen, but he is puffed up with empty notions by his fleshly mind.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Col 2:8 1 John 4:1-2 Col 2:23 1 Tim 1:7 1 Tim 4:1 Rev 22:8-9 1 Cor 8:5-6 Rom 1:25 2 Cor 11:3 2 John 1:7-11

Colossians 2:19¹⁹He has not held fast to the head from whom the whole body, supported and knit together through its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Eph 4:15-16 John 15:4-6 1 Pet 3:8 1 Tim 2:4-6 2 Pet 3:18 Col 2:2 Rom 12:4-5 1 Thess 3:12 1 Thess 4:10 1 Cor 3:6

Colossians 2:20²⁰If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit to them as though you lived in the world?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Col 2:8 Col 2:14 Col 2:16 Gal 4:3 Rom 7:4-6 1 John 5:19 Heb 13:9 1 Pet 4:1-3 2 Cor 10:3 Gal 2:19-20

Colossians 2:21²¹“Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Tim 4:3 Isa 52:11 Gen 3:3 2 Cor 6:17

Colossians 2:23²³Even though they have the appearance of wisdom with their self-imposed worship and humility achieved by an unsparing treatment of the body—a wisdom with no true value—they in reality result in fleshly indulgence.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Tim 4:8 Col 2:18 Col 2:22 Col 2:8 2 Cor 11:13-15 Eph 5:29 Matt 23:27-28 1 Tim 4:3 Gen 3:5-6

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