Colossians 2
New Life Version
The Christian Is Complete in Christ
2 I want you to know how hard I have worked for you and for the Christians in the city of Laodicea and for those who have never seen me. 2 May their hearts be given comfort. May they be brought close together in Christian love. May they be rich in understanding and know God’s secret. It is Christ Himself. 3 In Christ are hidden all the riches of wisdom and understanding. 4 I tell you this so no one will try to change your mind with big sounding talk. 5 Even if I am far away from you in body, I am with you in spirit. I am happy to learn how well you are getting along. It is good to hear that your faith is so strong in Christ. 6 As you have put your trust in Christ Jesus the Lord to save you from the punishment of sin, now let Him lead you in every step. 7 Have your roots planted deep in Christ. Grow in Him. Get your strength from Him. Let Him make you strong in the faith as you have been taught. Your life should be full of thanks to Him.
Wisdom of the World Is Empty
8 Be careful that no one changes your mind and faith by much learning and big sounding ideas. Those things are what men dream up. They are always trying to make new religions. These leave out Christ. 9 For Christ is not only God-like, He is God in human flesh. 10 When you have Christ, you are complete. He is the head over all leaders and powers. 11 When you became a Christian, you were set free from the sinful things of the world. This was not done by human hands. You were set free from the sins of your old self by what was done in Christ’s body. 12 When you were baptized, you were buried as Christ was buried. When you were raised up in baptism, you were raised as Christ was raised. You were raised to a new life by putting your trust in God. It was God Who raised Jesus from the dead. 13 When you were dead in your sins, you were not set free from the sinful things of the world. But God forgave your sins and gave you new life through Christ. 14 We had broken the Law many ways. Those sins were held against us by the Law. That Law had writings which said we were sinners. But now He has destroyed that writing by nailing it to the cross. 15 God took away the power of the leaders of this world and the powers of darkness. He showed them to the world. The battle was won over them through Christ.
Watch for Those Who Want to Keep the Law
16 Do not let anyone tell you what you should or should not eat or drink. They have no right to say if it is right or wrong to eat certain foods or if you are to go to religious suppers. They have no right to say what you are to do at the time of the new moon or on the Day of Rest. 17 These things are a picture of what is coming. The important thing is Christ Himself. 18 Do not let anyone rob you of your crown. They will try to get you to bow down in worship of angels. They think this shows you are not proud. They say they were told to do this in a dream. These people are proud because of their sinful minds. 19 Such people are not a part of Christ. Christ is the Head. We Christians make up His body. We are joined together as a body is held together. Our strength to grow comes from Christ.
20 You have died with Christ and become dead to those old ways. Then why do you follow the old ways of worship? Why do you obey man-made rules? 21 These rules say, “You must not put your hand on this.” “Do not put this into your mouth.” “You must not put your finger on that.” 22 All these things come to an end when they are used. You are following only man-made rules. 23 It looks as if it is wise to follow these rules in an act of worship, because they are hard on the body. It looks as if they are done without pride, but they are worth nothing. They do not take away a man’s desire to sin.
Colossians 2
New King James Version
Not Philosophy but Christ
2 For I want you to know what a great (A)conflict[a] I have for you and those in Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, 2 that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, [b]both of the Father and of Christ, 3 (B)in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
4 Now this I say (C)lest anyone should deceive you with persuasive words. 5 For (D)though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing [c]to see (E)your good order and the (F)steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
6 (G)As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, 7 (H)rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding [d]in it with thanksgiving.
8 Beware lest anyone [e]cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to (I)the tradition of men, according to the (J)basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. 9 For (K)in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead [f]bodily; 10 and you are complete in Him, who is the (L)head of all [g]principality and power.
Not Legalism but Christ
11 In Him you were also (M)circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by (N)putting off the body [h]of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 (O)buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through (P)faith in the working of God, (Q)who raised Him from the dead. 13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 (R)having wiped out the [i]handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 (S)Having disarmed (T)principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
16 So let no one (U)judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a [j]festival or a new moon or sabbaths, 17 (V)which are a shadow of things to come, but the [k]substance is of Christ. 18 Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has [l]not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 19 and not holding fast to (W)the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, (X)grows with the increase that is from God.
20 [m]Therefore, if you (Y)died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, (Z)why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations— 21 (AA)“Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,” 22 which all concern things which perish with the using—(AB)according to the commandments and doctrines of men? 23 (AC)These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and [n]neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.
Footnotes
- Colossians 2:1 struggle
- Colossians 2:2 NU omits both of the Father and
- Colossians 2:5 Lit. and seeing
- Colossians 2:7 NU omits in it
- Colossians 2:8 Lit. plunder you or take you captive
- Colossians 2:9 in bodily form
- Colossians 2:10 rule and authority
- Colossians 2:11 NU omits of the sins
- Colossians 2:14 certificate of debt with its
- Colossians 2:16 feast day
- Colossians 2:17 Lit. body
- Colossians 2:18 NU omits not
- Colossians 2:20 NU, M omit Therefore
- Colossians 2:23 severe treatment, asceticism
歌罗西书 2
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
2 我希望你们知道，为了你们和老底嘉人，以及许多从未和我见过面的人，我是怎样努力奋斗的， 2 为要使你们众人心受鼓励，联结在爱里，有丰富笃定的真知灼见，可以认识上帝的奥秘。这奥秘就是基督， 3 一切智慧和知识都蕴藏在祂里面。 4 我讲这番话是为了防止有人用花言巧语迷惑你们。 5 现在，我人虽不在你们那里，心却和你们在一起，看到你们生活井然有序，对基督坚信不移，我很喜乐。
生活以基督为中心
6 你们既然接受了基督耶稣为主，就当继续遵从祂， 7 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。
8 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。 9 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。 13 你们从前死在过犯和未被割除的罪恶本性中，但现在上帝却使你们与基督一同活了过来。上帝赦免了我们一切的过犯， 14 撤销了指控我们违背律法的罪状，将它和基督一同钉在了十字架上， 15 打败了一切在灵界执政、掌权的邪恶势力，用基督在十字架上的胜利公开羞辱它们。
16 所以，不可让人在饮食、节期、朔日[a]或安息日的事上批评你们。 17 这些都不过是将来之事的影子，那真实的本体是基督。 18 有些人喜欢故作谦虚，敬拜天使，沉迷于所看见的幻象，你们不要因他们而失去得奖赏的资格。他们随从堕落的思想无故自高自大， 19 没有与身体的头——基督联结。全身是靠关节和筋络维系，从基督得到供应，按上帝的旨意渐渐成长。
20 你们既然和基督一同死了，摆脱了世俗的玄学，为什么仍像活在世俗中， 21 服从“不可拿、不可尝、不可摸”之类的规条呢？ 22 这些规条不过是人的戒律和说教，经不起实践的考验， 23 看似充满智慧，其实只不过是自创的宗教、自表谦卑、苦待己身，对于克制邪情私欲毫无用处。
Footnotes
- 2:16 “朔日”即每月初一。
Kolosserbrevet 2
Svenska 1917
2 Jag vill nämligen, att I skolen veta, vilken kamp jag har att utstå för eder och för församlingen i Laodicea och för alla de andra som icke personligen hava sett mitt ansikte.
2 Ty jag önskar, att deras hjärtan skola få hugnad, därigenom att de slutas tillsammans i kärlek och komma till en full förståndsvisshets hela rikedom, till en rätt kunskap om Guds hemlighet, vilken är Kristus;
3 ty i honom finnas visdomens och kunskapens alla skatter fördolda.
4 Detta säger jag, för att ingen skall bedraga eder med skenfagert tal.
5 Ty om jag ock till kroppen är frånvarande, så är jag dock i anden hos eder och gläder mig, när jag ser den ordning, som råder bland eder, och när jag ser fastheten i eder tro på Kristus.
6 Såsom I nu haven mottagit Kristus Jesus, Herren, så vandren i honom
7 och varen rotade i honom och låten eder uppbyggas i honom och befästas i tron, i enlighet med den undervisning I haven fått, och överflöden i tacksägelse.
8 Sen till, att ingen får bortföra eder såsom ett segerbyte genom sin tomma och bedrägliga "vishetslära", i det att han åberopar fäderneärvda människomeningar och håller sig till världens "makter" och icke till Kristus.
9 Ty i honom bor gudomens hela fullhet lekamligen,
10 och i honom haven I blivit delaktiga av den fullheten, i honom som är huvudet för alla andevärldens furstar och väldigheter.
11 I honom haven I ock blivit omskurna genom en omskärelse, som icke skedde med händer, en som bestod däri att I bleven avklädda eder köttsliga kropp; jag menar omskärelsen i Kristus.
12 I haven ju med honom blivit begravna i dopet; I haven ock i dopet blivit uppväckta med honom, genom tron på Guds kraft, hans som uppväckte honom från de döda.
13 Ja, också eder som voren döda genom edra synder och genom edert kötts oomskurenhet, också eder har han gjort levande med honom; ty han har förlåtit oss alla våra synder.
14 Han har nämligen utplånat den handskrift som genom sina stadgar anklagade oss och låg oss i vägen; den har han skaffat undan genom att nagla den fast vid korset.
15 Han har avväpnat andevärldens furstar och väldigheter och låtit dem bliva till skam inför alla, i det att han i honom har triumferat över dem.
16 Låten därför ingen döma eder i fråga om mat och dryck eller angående högtid eller nymånad eller sabbat.
17 Sådant är allenast en skuggbild av vad som skulla komma, men verkligheten själv finnes hos Kristus.
18 Låten icke segerlönen tagas ifrån eder av någon som har sin lust i "ödmjukhet" och ängladyrkan och gör sig stor med sina syner, någon som utan orsak är uppblåst genom sitt köttsliga sinne
19 och icke håller sig till honom som är huvudet, honom från vilken hela kroppen vinner sin tillväxt i Gud, i det att den av sina ledgångar och senor får bistånd och sammanhållning.
20 Om I nu haven dött med Kristus och så blivit frigjorda ifrån världens "makter", varför låten I då allahanda stadgar läggas på eder, likasom levden I ännu i världen:
21 "Det skall du icke taga i", "Det skall du icke smaka", "Det skall du icke komma vid",
22 och detta när det gäller ting, som alla äro bestämda till att gå under genom förbrukning -- allt till åtlydnad av människobud och människoläror?
23 Visserligen har allt detta fått namn om sig att vara "vishet", eftersom däri ligger ett självvalt gudstjänstväsende och ett slags "ödmjukhet" och en kroppens späkning; men ingalunda ligger däri "en viss heder", det tjänar allenast till att nära det köttsliga sinnet.
Colossiens 2
Louis Segond
2 Je veux, en effet, que vous sachiez combien est grand le combat que je soutiens pour vous, et pour ceux qui sont à Laodicée, et pour tous ceux qui n'ont pas vu mon visage en la chair,
2 afin qu'ils aient le coeur rempli de consolation, qu'ils soient unis dans la charité, et enrichis d'une pleine intelligence pour connaître le mystère de Dieu, savoir Christ,
3 mystère dans lequel sont cachés tous les trésors de la sagesse et de la science.
4 Je dis cela afin que personne ne vous trompe par des discours séduisants.
5 Car, si je suis absent de corps, je suis avec vous en esprit, voyant avec joie le bon ordre qui règne parmi vous, et la fermeté de votre foi en Christ.
6 Ainsi donc, comme vous avez reçu le Seigneur Jésus Christ, marchez en lui,
7 étant enracinés et fondés en lui, et affermis par la foi, d'après les instructions qui vous ont été données, et abondez en actions de grâces.
8 Prenez garde que personne ne fasse de vous sa proie par la philosophie et par une vaine tromperie, s'appuyant sur la tradition des hommes, sur les rudiments du monde, et non sur Christ.
9 Car en lui habite corporellement toute la plénitude de la divinité.
10 Vous avez tout pleinement en lui, qui est le chef de toute domination et de toute autorité.
11 Et c'est en lui que vous avez été circoncis d'une circoncision que la main n'a pas faite, mais de la circoncision de Christ, qui consiste dans le dépouillement du corps de la chair:
12 ayant été ensevelis avec lui par le baptême, vous êtes aussi ressuscités en lui et avec lui, par la foi en la puissance de Dieu, qui l'a ressuscité des morts.
13 Vous qui étiez morts par vos offenses et par l'incirconcision de votre chair, il vous a rendus à la vie avec lui, en nous faisant grâce pour toutes nos offenses;
14 il a effacé l'acte dont les ordonnances nous condamnaient et qui subsistait contre nous, et il l'a détruit en le clouant à la croix;
15 il a dépouillé les dominations et les autorités, et les a livrées publiquement en spectacle, en triomphant d'elles par la croix.
16 Que personne donc ne vous juge au sujet du manger ou du boire, ou au sujet d'une fête, d'une nouvelle lune, ou des sabbats:
17 c'était l'ombre des choses à venir, mais le corps est en Christ.
18 Qu'aucun homme, sous une apparence d'humilité et par un culte des anges, ne vous ravisse à son gré le prix de la course, tandis qu'il s'abandonne à ses visions et qu'il est enflé d'un vain orgueil par ses pensées charnelles,
19 sans s'attacher au chef, dont tout le corps, assisté et solidement assemblé par des jointures et des liens, tire l'accroissement que Dieu donne.
20 Si vous êtes morts avec Christ aux rudiments du monde, pourquoi, comme si vous viviez dans le monde, vous impose-t-on ces préceptes:
21 Ne prends pas! ne goûte pas! ne touche pas!
22 préceptes qui tous deviennent pernicieux par l'abus, et qui ne sont fondés que sur les ordonnances et les doctrines des hommes?
23 Ils ont, à la vérité, une apparence de sagesse, en ce qu'ils indiquent un culte volontaire, de l'humilité, et le mépris du corps, mais ils sont sans aucun mérite et contribuent à la satisfaction de la chair.
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