生活以基督为中心

你们既然接受了基督耶稣为主,就当继续遵从祂, 按照你们所受的教导在祂里面扎根成长,信心坚固,满怀感恩。

你们要谨慎,免得有人用空洞虚假的哲学把你们掳去。这些哲学不是出于基督,而是出于人的传统和世俗的玄学。 因为上帝完全的神性有形有体地蕴藏在基督里, 10 你们在基督里得到了丰盛的生命。祂是一切执政者和掌权者的元首。

11 你们也在基督里受了非人手所行的割礼,是基督为除掉你们的罪恶本性而行的割礼。 12 你们接受洗礼时已经与基督一同埋葬了,并借着相信上帝使基督从死里复活的大能,与基督一同复活了。

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(A)As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, (B)rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding [a]in it with thanksgiving.

Beware lest anyone [b]cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to (C)the tradition of men, according to the (D)basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. For (E)in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead [c]bodily; 10 and you are complete in Him, who is the (F)head of all [d]principality and power.

Not Legalism but Christ

11 In Him you were also (G)circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by (H)putting off the body [e]of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 (I)buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through (J)faith in the working of God, (K)who raised Him from the dead.

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 2:7 NU omits in it
  2. Colossians 2:8 Lit. plunder you or take you captive
  3. Colossians 2:9 in bodily form
  4. Colossians 2:10 rule and authority
  5. Colossians 2:11 NU omits of the sins

Error threatening the church

So live in Christ Jesus the Lord in the same way as you received him. Be rooted and built up in him, be established in faith, and overflow with thanksgiving just as you were taught. See to it that nobody enslaves you with philosophy and foolish deception, which conform to human traditions and the way the world thinks and acts rather than Christ. All the fullness of deity lives in Christ’s body. 10 And you have been filled by him, who is the head of every ruler and authority. 11 In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not administered by human hands. The circumcision of Christ is realized in the stripping away of the whole self dominated by sin. 12 You were buried with him through baptism and raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.

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