Colossians 2 : King James Version

2 1For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for
you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my
face in the flesh; 2That their hearts might be comforted,
being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full
assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of
God, and of the Father, and of Christ; 3In whom are hid
all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 4And this I
say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words. 5For
though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit,
joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith
in Christ. 6As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus
the Lord, so walk ye in him: 7Rooted and built up in him,
and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding
therein with thanksgiving. 8Beware lest any man spoil you
through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men,
after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 9For
in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. 10And
ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and
power: 11In whom also ye are circumcised with the
circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins
of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: 12Buried with
him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith
of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. 13And
you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh,
hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all
trespasses; 14Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances
that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of
the way, nailing it to his cross; 15And having spoiled
principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing
over them in it. 16Let no man therefore judge you in
meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon,
or of the sabbath days: 17Which are a shadow of things to
come; but the body is of Christ. 18Let no man beguile you
of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels,
intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up
by his fleshly mind, 19And not holding the Head, from
which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment
ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
20Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments
of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to
ordinances, 21(Touch not; taste not; handle not; 22Which
all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and
doctrines of men? 23Which things have indeed a shew of
wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body:
not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.