ABP - Colossians - 2

2:1  For I want you to know how much struggle I have for you, and the ones in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in flesh;

2:2  that [2should be comforted 1their hearts], being instructed in love, and in all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, in full knowledge of the mystery of the God and father and of the Christ;

2:3  in which are all the treasures of the wisdom and of the knowledge concealed.

2:4  And this I say, that not anyone should mislead you in plausible arguments.

2:5  For if even in the flesh I am absent, yet in the spirit [2with 3you 1I am], rejoicing and seeing your order, and the firmness, the one [2in 3Christ 1of your belief].

2:6  As then you took to yourself the Christ -- Jesus the Lord; [2in 3him 1walk]!

2:7  being rooted and built up in him, and being firmed up in the belief, as you were taught, abounding in it with thankfulness.

2:8  Take heed lest [2anyone 4you 1there shall be 3robbing] through the fondness of intellectual pursuits and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ!

2:9  For in him dwells all the fullness of the deity bodily.

2:10  And you are [2in 3him 1being fulfilled], who is the head of all sovereignty and authority;

2:11  in whom also you were circumcised by a circumcision not made by hands, in the stripping of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of the Christ;

2:12  having been buried together with him in the immersion, in which also you were risen up together through the belief of the energy of God -- the one having raised him from the dead.

2:13  And you, being dead in the transgressions, and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he made you alive together with him, granting forgiveness to us for all the transgressions;

2:14  having wiped away the [4against 5us 1handwriting 2by the 3decrees], which was contrary to us; and he has lifted it from out of the midst, having fastened it with a nail to the cross;

2:15  having divested the sovereignties and the authorities, he made an example in an open manner triumphing over them by it.

2:16  [2not 3then 4anyone 6you 1Let 5judge] in food or in drink, or in the rank of a holiday feast, or new moon, or sabbaths,

2:17  which are a shadow of the things about to be -- but the body of the Christ!

2:18  [2no one 4you 1Let 3deprive] of due reward, wanting by deprivation and following a religion of angels, [2things which 3he has not 4seen 1entering into], vainly being inflated by the mind of his flesh,

2:19  and not holding onto the head, from out of which all the body through the ligaments and sinews being supplied and being instructed, grow by the growth of God.

2:20  If then you died with the Christ from the elements of the world, why as living in the world do you subject yourselves to decrees?

2:21  that is, You should not lightly touch, nor should you taste, nor should you touch,

2:22  (which things are all for corruption in abuse,) according to the precepts and instructions of men,

2:23  which is communication then having wisdom in man made religion, and deprivation, and austerity of the body, not in any value to fullness of the flesh.