歌罗西书 2
Chinese Standard Bible (Simplified)
2 我希望你们知道，我为你们和那些在劳迪西亚的人，以及一切没有亲自[a]看到我面的人，有多么大的争战， 2 好让他们的心受到安慰，在爱中结合在一起，以致得到[b]由悟性的确信不疑而来的一切丰盛，直到真正认识神的奥秘，就是基督[c]—— 3 在他里面隐藏着一切智慧和知识的财宝。
提防异端
4 我说这话，是免得有人用花言巧语欺骗你们。 5 因为，我虽然身体不在你们那里，心灵却与你们同在，而且看见你们有秩序，对基督的信仰也坚定不移，我就感到快乐。
6 所以，你们怎样接受了主基督耶稣[d]，就应当怎样在他里面行事[e]， 7 照着你们所受的教导，在他里面得以扎根、建造，在信仰上得以确立，在感谢中丰足有余。
8 你们要当心，免得有人用哲学和虚空的妄言把你们掳去；那些是出于人的传统，出于世界的原则，而不是出于基督。 9 这是因为神本性的一切丰盛完美都有形有体地居住在基督里面； 10 你们在他里面已经得以满足，他是一切统治者和掌权者的元首[f]； 11 在他里面，你们也受了割礼，不是藉着人的手，而是藉着脱去那血肉之躯，藉着基督的割礼。 12 你们既然在洗礼中与基督一同被埋葬，也就在洗礼中[g]与基督一同复活了，这是藉着相信使基督从死人中复活之神的作为。 13 你们从前在自己的过犯和没有受割礼的肉体中是死的，神却使你们与基督一同活过来了。神已经赦免了我们[h]的一切过犯， 14 抹去了在敌对我们的那些规条中反对我们的债务记录，并且把它从中除掉，钉在十字架上。 15 神既然剥夺了那些统治者和掌权者的权势[i]，就公开羞辱[j][k]他们；藉着基督[l]向他们夸胜[m]了。
16 所以，在吃喝的事上，或在有关节日、月朔或安息日的事上，不要让人评断你们。 17 这些不过是将来之事的影子，而实体却属于基督。 18 不要让任何人藉着故意谦卑和敬拜天使来夺去你们的奖赏；他们沉迷在自己所看到的幻象[n]中，在自己肉体的理性之下，毫无理由地自我膨胀， 19 不与元首[o]紧密相连。本于他，全身得到供应，藉着关节和筋络结合在一起，在属神的成长中长大。
20 你们如果已经和基督一同死了，脱离了世界的原则，为什么还像活在这世俗中一样，拘守那些 21 “不可碰，不可尝，不可摸”之类的条例呢？ 22 这些东西都是一经使用就要衰朽[p]的，是出于人的规条和教义； 23 它们虽然藉着自造宗教、谦卑低微、苦待身体，外表有智慧，但在对付放任肉体的事上，没有任何价值。
Footnotes
- 歌罗西书 2:1 亲自——原文直译“在肉体上”。
- 歌罗西书 2:2 得到——辅助词语。
- 歌罗西书 2:2 基督——有古抄本作“父与基督”。
- 歌罗西书 2:6 接受了主基督耶稣——或译作“接受了基督耶稣为主”。
- 歌罗西书 2:6 行事——原文直译“行走”。
- 歌罗西书 2:10 元首——原文直译“头”。
- 歌罗西书 2:12 在洗礼中——或译作“在基督里面”。
- 歌罗西书 2:13 我们——有古抄本作“你们”。
- 歌罗西书 2:15 的权势——辅助词语。
- 歌罗西书 2:15 公开羞辱——或译作“示众”。
- 歌罗西书 2:15 羞辱——原文直译“展示”。
- 歌罗西书 2:15 基督——原文直译“他”或“它”；或指“十字架”。
- 歌罗西书 2:15 夸胜——原文直译“举行凯旋仪式”或“使……做凯旋仪式中的俘虏”。
- 歌罗西书 2:18 幻象——辅助词语。
- 歌罗西书 2:19 元首——原文直译“头”。
- 歌罗西书 2:22 衰朽——或译作“败坏”。
歌罗西书 2
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
2 我愿意你们知道，我为你们和在老底嘉的人，以及所有没有跟我见过面的人，是怎样竭力奋斗， 2 为的是要他们的心得着勉励，在爱中彼此联系，可以得着凭悟性、因确信而来的一切丰盛，也可以充分认识 神的奥秘，这奥秘就是基督； 3 一切智慧和知识的宝库都蕴藏在基督里面。 4 我说这些话，免得有人用花言巧语欺骗你们。 5 我虽然不在你们那里，心却与你们同在。我看见你们循规蹈矩，并且对基督有坚定的信心，就欢喜了。
在基督里得丰盛
6 你们怎样接受了基督耶稣为主，就当照样在他里面行事为人， 7 按着你们所领受的教导，在他里面扎根、建造，信心坚定，满有感谢的心。 8 你们要谨慎，免得有人不照着基督，而照着人的传统，和世俗的言论，借着哲学和骗人的空谈，把你们掳去。 9 因为 神本性的一切丰盛，都有形有体地住在基督里面， 10 你们也是在他里面得了丰盛。他是一切执政掌权者的元首。 11 你们也在他里面受了不是由人手所行的割礼，而是受了基督的割礼，就是除掉你们的罪身。 12 你们在洗礼中已经与他一同埋葬，也在洗礼中，因信那使基督从死人中复活的 神所运行的动力，与他一同复活了。 13 你们因着过犯和肉体未受割礼，原是死的，然而 神赦免了我们的一切过犯，使你们与基督一同活过来， 14 涂抹了那写在规条上反对我们、与我们为敌的字句，并且把这字句从我们中间拿去，钉在十字架上。 15 他既然靠着十字架胜过了一切执政掌权的，废除了他们的权势，就在凯旋的行列中，把他们公开示众。
16 所以不要让人因着饮食、节期、月朔、安息日批评你们， 17 这些不过是将来的事的影子，那真体却是属于基督的。 18 不要让人夺去你们的奖赏，他们以故意谦卑，敬拜天使为乐；迷于自己所见过的；凭着肉体的意念，无故地自高自大； 19 不与头紧密相连。其实全身都是借着关节和筋络从头得着供应和联系，就照着 神所要求的，生长起来。
在基督里作新人
20-21 你们若与基督一同死了，脱离了世俗的言论，为甚么仍然好象活在世俗中一样，拘守那“不可摸、不可尝、不可触”的规条呢？ 22 （这一切东西，一经使用，就都朽坏了。）这些规条是照着人的命令和教训而定的， 23 在随着己意敬拜，故作谦卑，和苦待己身等事上，似乎是智慧之言，其实只能叫人放纵肉体，再没有任何价值。
Kehillah in Colossae 2
Orthodox Jewish Bible
2 For I want you to have da’as of how great a ma’avak (struggle) I have for you and the ones in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen me panim el panim (directly, in person),
2 That their levavot may be given chozek (strength), having been made an aguda of ahavah and all osher (wealth) of the full assurance of binah, resulting in the da’as of the raz of Hashem, namely Moshiach,
3 In whom is nistar (hidden) all the otzarot (treasures) of chochmah and da’as. [YESHAYAH 11:2; YIRMEYAH 23:5]
4 This I say so that no one may delude you with the sleight of hand of the ba’al melitzot (rhetorician).
5 For, though absent in basar, but present with you in the Ruach Hakodesh, with lev same’ach (glad heart) I am seeing your order and the firmness of your [Orthodox Jewish] emunah in Moshiach.
6 Therefore, as you became mekabel Moshiach and received Moshiach Adoneinu Yehoshua, so let your halichah be in Him,
7 Having been rooted and built up in Moshiach and being firmly founded in the emunah as you were given Messianic [orthodox] lernen [study], abounding in hodayah.
8 Beware lest there be anyone of you taken captive through philosophical tevunah (wisdom) and empty deceit according to the kabbalah (oral tradition) of mere Bnei Adam, according to the ikkarim (basic principles) of the Olam Hazeh and not according to Moshiach;
9 Because in Moshiach kol melo Elohim (all the plentitude of G-d) finds its bodily maon laShechinah (dwelling place for the Shechinah).
10 And you have been granted melo (plentitude) in Moshiach, who is the Rosh of all rule and authority.
11 In Moshiach also you were circumcised with a Bris Milah not made with human hands, a Bris Milah of the surgically removing of the body of the basar (old fallen and unregenerate nature) in the Bris Milah of Moshiach,
12 Having been buried in the Ohel of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach’s tevilah with him, with whom also you were made to stand up spiritually in the Techiyah together through your emunah and bitachon in the ma’aseh of Hashem who made Moshiach stand up from the Mesim.
13 And you being dead in your peysha’im (YESHAYAH 53:8) and your orlat basar (uncircumcision of flesh) he made alive together, you together with Moshiach, having granted you selicha for all your peysha’im;
14 Having erased the handsigned sefer of guilt choiv (debt), the heavenly indictment against us in the maleh chukat haTorah (full statute requirement of the Torah), which was against us. Moshiach has done away with this opposing record, having nailed it to Moshiach’s Etz.
15 Having disarmed the rulers and the authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, having triumphed over them by Moshiach’s Etz.
16 Therefore, let no one judge you [Goyim] in eating and in drinking or in respect to a yom tov (yontev) or a rosh chodesh or Shabbos;
17 Which are a shadow of the things to come in the Olam HaBah; but the reality, the substance, is Moshiach.
18 Let no one deprive you of the prize by delighting in his mystical asceticism and his veneration of malachim and delving into his chazonot (visions) and being vainly puffed up by the machshavot (thoughts) of his basar (old nature unrenewed and unregenerated by the Ruach Hakodesh),
19 And not holding on to the Rosh, out of whom all the Moshiach’s Guf, being fully supplied and being be’ichud (united) together through the joints and ligaments, grows with the growth of Hashem.
20 Als (Since) you died with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to the ikkarim (basic principles) of the Olam Hazeh, why, as though you still belonged to the keyam (existence) of the Olam Hazeh, do you (Goyim) chain yourself to chumra legalisms?
21 "Do not touch; do not taste; do not handle."
22 The things referred to are all destined to deterioration with use, according to the humanly contrived mitzvot and the humanly contrived chukim (laws) of mere Bnei Adam [i.e., non-Biblical teachings and humanly contrived religious tradition]YESHAYAH 29:13],
23 Which things have a superficial appearance of chochmah in self-imposed religion and mystical asceticism and severe physical mortification, but are of no value against the indulgence of the basar (the old nature unrenewed and unregenerated by the Ruach Hakodesh).
Colossians 2
The Message
2 I want you to realize that I continue to work as hard as I know how for you, and also for the Christians over at Laodicea. Not many of you have met me face-to-face, but that doesn’t make any difference. Know that I’m on your side, right alongside you. You’re not in this alone.
2-4 I want you woven into a tapestry of love, in touch with everything there is to know of God. Then you will have minds confident and at rest, focused on Christ, God’s great mystery. All the richest treasures of wisdom and knowledge are embedded in that mystery and nowhere else. And we’ve been shown the mystery! I’m telling you this because I don’t want anyone leading you off on some wild-goose chase, after other so-called mysteries, or “the Secret.”
5 I’m a long way off, true, and you may never lay eyes on me, but believe me, I’m on your side, right beside you. I am delighted to hear of the careful and orderly ways you conduct your affairs, and impressed with the solid substance of your faith in Christ.
From the Shadows to the Substance
6-7 My counsel for you is simple and straightforward: Just go ahead with what you’ve been given. You received Christ Jesus, the Master; now live him. You’re deeply rooted in him. You’re well constructed upon him. You know your way around the faith. Now do what you’ve been taught. School’s out; quit studying the subject and start living it! And let your living spill over into thanksgiving.
8-10 Watch out for people who try to dazzle you with big words and intellectual double-talk. They want to drag you off into endless arguments that never amount to anything. They spread their ideas through the empty traditions of human beings and the empty superstitions of spirit beings. But that’s not the way of Christ. Everything of God gets expressed in him, so you can see and hear him clearly. You don’t need a telescope, a microscope, or a horoscope to realize the fullness of Christ, and the emptiness of the universe without him. When you come to him, that fullness comes together for you, too. His power extends over everything.
11-15 Entering into this fullness is not something you figure out or achieve. It’s not a matter of being circumcised or keeping a long list of laws. No, you’re already in—insiders—not through some secretive initiation rite but rather through what Christ has already gone through for you, destroying the power of sin. If it’s an initiation ritual you’re after, you’ve already been through it by submitting to baptism. Going under the water was a burial of your old life; coming up out of it was a resurrection, God raising you from the dead as he did Christ. When you were stuck in your old sin-dead life, you were incapable of responding to God. God brought you alive—right along with Christ! Think of it! All sins forgiven, the slate wiped clean, that old arrest warrant canceled and nailed to Christ’s cross. He stripped all the spiritual tyrants in the universe of their sham authority at the Cross and marched them naked through the streets.
16-17 So don’t put up with anyone pressuring you in details of diet, worship services, or holy days. All those things are mere shadows cast before what was to come; the substance is Christ.
18-19 Don’t tolerate people who try to run your life, ordering you to bow and scrape, insisting that you join their obsession with angels and that you seek out visions. They’re a lot of hot air, that’s all they are. They’re completely out of touch with the source of life, Christ, who puts us together in one piece, whose very breath and blood flow through us. He is the Head and we are the body. We can grow up healthy in God only as he nourishes us.
20-23 So, then, if with Christ you’ve put all that puffed-up and childish religion behind you, why do you let yourselves be bullied by it? “Don’t touch this! Don’t taste that! Don’t go near this!” Do you think things that are here today and gone tomorrow are worth that kind of attention? Such things sound impressive if said in a deep enough voice. They even give the illusion of being pious and humble and austere. But they’re just another way of showing off, making yourselves look important.
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