Colossians 2

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1. Colossians 2:2KJV That 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;NIV My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ,
2. Colossians 2:7KJV Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.NIV rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
3. Colossians 2:8KJV Beware 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.NASB See to it that there is no one who takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception in accordance with human tradition, in accordance with the elementary principles of the world, rather than in accordance with…
4. Colossians 2:9KJV For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.NASB For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form,
5. Colossians 2:11KJV In 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:NIV In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh was put off when you were circumcised by Christ,
6. Colossians 2:18KJV Let 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,NIV Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you . Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual…
7. Colossians 2:20KJV Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,NASB If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as,
8. Colossians 2:22KJV Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?AMP (these things all perish with use)—in accordance with the commandments and teachings of men.