Colossians 2
Names of God Bible
2 I want you to know how hard I work for you, for the people of Laodicea, and for people I have never met. 2 Because they are united in love, I work so that they may be encouraged by all the riches that come from a complete understanding of Christ. He is the mystery of God. 3 God has hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge in Christ. 4 I say this so that no one will mislead you with arguments that merely sound good. 5 Although I’m absent from you physically, I’m with you in spirit. I’m happy to see how orderly you are and how firm your faith in Christ is.
6 You received Christ Yeshua the Lord, so continue to live as Christ’s people. 7 Sink your roots in him and build on him. Be strengthened by the faith that you were taught, and overflow with thanksgiving.
Beware of Requirements Invented by Humans
8 Be careful not to let anyone rob you of this faith through a shallow and misleading philosophy. Such a person follows human traditions and the world’s way of doing things rather than following Christ.
9 All of God lives in Christ’s body, 10 and God has made you complete in Christ. Christ is in charge of every ruler and authority. 11 In him you were also circumcised. It was not a circumcision performed by human hands. But it was a removal of the corrupt nature in the circumcision performed by Christ. 12 This happened when you were placed in the tomb with Christ through baptism. In baptism you were also brought back to life with Christ through faith in the power of God,[a] who brought him back to life.
13 You were once dead because of your failures and your uncircumcised corrupt nature. But God made you alive with Christ when he forgave all our failures. 14 He did this by erasing the charges that were brought against us by the written laws God had established. He took the charges away by nailing them to the cross. 15 He stripped the rulers and authorities of their power and made a public spectacle of them as he celebrated his victory in Christ.
16 Therefore, let no one judge you because of what you eat or drink or about the observance of annual holy days, New Moon Festivals, or weekly worship days. 17 These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts the shadow belongs to Christ.
18 Let no one who delights in false humility and the worship of angels tell you that you don’t deserve a prize. Such a person, whose sinful mind fills him with arrogance, gives endless details of the visions he has seen. 19 He doesn’t hold on to Christ, the head. Christ makes the whole body grow as God wants it to, through support and unity given by the joints and ligaments.
20 If you have died with Christ to the world’s way of doing things, why do you let others tell you how to live? It’s as though you were still under the world’s influence. 21 People will tell you, “Don’t handle this! Don’t taste or touch that!” 22 All of these things deal with objects that are only used up anyway. 23 These things look like wisdom with their self-imposed worship, false humility, and harsh treatment of the body. But they have no value for holding back the constant desires of your corrupt nature.
Footnotes
- Colossians 2:12 Or “through faith produced by God.”
Colossians 2
New International Version
2 I want you to know how hard I am contending(A) for you and for those at Laodicea,(B) and for all who have not met me personally. 2 My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart(C) and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery(D) of God, namely, Christ, 3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.(E) 4 I tell you this so that no one may deceive you by fine-sounding arguments.(F) 5 For though I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit(G) and delight to see how disciplined(H) you are and how firm(I) your faith in Christ(J) is.
Spiritual Fullness in Christ
6 So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord,(K) continue to live your lives in him, 7 rooted(L) and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught,(M) and overflowing with thankfulness.
8 See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy,(N) which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces[a] of this world(O) rather than on Christ.
9 For in Christ all the fullness(P) of the Deity lives in bodily form, 10 and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head(Q) over every power and authority.(R) 11 In him you were also circumcised(S) with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh[b](T) was put off when you were circumcised by[c] Christ, 12 having been buried with him in baptism,(U) in which you were also raised with him(V) through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.(W)
13 When you were dead in your sins(X) and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you[d] alive(Y) with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,(Z) 14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness,(AA) which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.(AB) 15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities,(AC) he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them(AD) by the cross.[e]
Freedom From Human Rules
16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you(AE) by what you eat or drink,(AF) or with regard to a religious festival,(AG) a New Moon celebration(AH) or a Sabbath day.(AI) 17 These are a shadow of the things that were to come;(AJ) the reality, however, is found in Christ. 18 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility(AK) and the worship of angels disqualify you.(AL) Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind. 19 They have lost connection with the head,(AM) from whom the whole body,(AN) supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.(AO)
20 Since you died with Christ(AP) to the elemental spiritual forces of this world,(AQ) why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules:(AR) 21 “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”? 22 These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish(AS) with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings.(AT) 23 Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility(AU) and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.
Footnotes
- Colossians 2:8 Or the basic principles; also in verse 20
- Colossians 2:11 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit; also in verse 13.
- Colossians 2:11 Or put off in the circumcision of
- Colossians 2:13 Some manuscripts us
- Colossians 2:15 Or them in him
歌羅西書 2
Chinese Union Version Modern Punctuation (Traditional)
2 我願意你們曉得,我為你們和老底嘉人,並一切沒有與我親自見面的人,是何等地盡心竭力, 2 要叫他們的心得安慰,因愛心互相聯絡,以致豐豐足足在悟性中有充足的信心,使他們真知神的奧祕,就是基督, 3 所積蓄的一切智慧知識都在他裡面藏著。 4 我說這話,免得有人用花言巧語迷惑你們。 5 我身子雖與你們相離,心卻與你們同在,見你們循規蹈矩,信基督的心也堅固,我就歡喜了。
6 你們既然接受了主基督耶穌,就當遵他而行, 7 在他裡面生根建造,信心堅固,正如你們所領的教訓,感謝的心也更增長了。
防避不合真理的學問
8 你們要謹慎,恐怕有人用他的理學和虛空的妄言,不照著基督,乃照人間的遺傳和世上的小學,就把你們擄去。 9 因為神本性一切的豐盛,都有形有體地居住在基督裡面; 10 你們在他裡面也得了豐盛。他是各樣執政掌權者的元首。 11 你們在他裡面也受了不是人手所行的割禮,乃是基督使你們脫去肉體情慾的割禮。 12 你們既受洗與他一同埋葬,也就在此與他一同復活,都因信那叫他從死裡復活神的功用。
在罪中死蒙恩得活
13 你們從前在過犯和未受割禮的肉體中死了,神赦免了你們[a]一切過犯,便叫你們與基督一同活過來, 14 又塗抹了在律例上所寫攻擊我們、有礙於我們的字據,把它撤去,釘在十字架上。 15 既將一切執政的、掌權的擄來,明顯給眾人看,就仗著十字架誇勝。
16 所以,不拘在飲食上或節期、月朔、安息日,都不可讓人論斷你們。 17 這些原是後事的影兒,那形體卻是基督。 18 不可讓人因著故意謙虛和敬拜天使,就奪去你們的獎賞。這等人拘泥在所見過的[b],隨著自己的慾心,無故地自高自大, 19 不持定元首。全身既然靠著他,筋節得以相助聯絡,就因神大得長進。
不要在世俗中活著
20 你們若是與基督同死,脫離了世上的小學,為什麼仍像在世俗中活著,服從那「不可拿、不可嘗、不可摸」等類的規條呢? 22 這都是照人所吩咐所教導的。說到這一切,正用的時候就都敗壞了。 23 這些規條使人徒有智慧之名,用私意崇拜,自表謙卑,苦待己身,其實在克制肉體的情慾上是毫無功效。
Colossians 2
King James Version
2 For 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;
2 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;
3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
5 For 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.
6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
8 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.
9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
11 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:
12 Buried 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.
13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
14 Blotting 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;
15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
16 Let 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:
17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
18 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,
19 And 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.
20 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,
21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
23 Which 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.
Kolosser 2
Hoffnung für Alle
2 Ihr sollt wissen, wie sehr ich um euch kämpfe, auch um die Gemeinde in Laodizea und um all die anderen, die mich persönlich noch gar nicht kennen. 2 Ja, ich setze mich dafür ein, dass Gott euch allen Mut und Kraft gibt und euch in seiner Liebe zusammenhält. Er schenke euch tiefes Verstehen, damit ihr die ganze Größe seines Geheimnisses erkennt. Dieses Geheimnis ist Christus. 3 In ihm sind alle Schätze der Weisheit und Erkenntnis verborgen.
4 Ich sage das, damit ihr euch von niemandem durch wohlklingende Worte auf einen falschen Weg bringen lasst. 5 Zwar bin ich weit von euch entfernt, aber im Geist bin ich mit euch allen verbunden. Ich bin glücklich, wenn ich sehe, wie fest ihr zusammensteht und wie unerschütterlich ihr an Christus glaubt.
Bleibt mit Christus verbunden
6 Ihr habt Jesus Christus als euren Herrn angenommen; nun lebt auch in der Gemeinschaft mit ihm. 7 Wie ein Baum in der Erde, so sollt ihr in Christus fest verwurzelt bleiben, und nur er soll das Fundament eures Lebens sein. Haltet fest an dem Glauben, den man euch lehrte. Für das, was Gott euch geschenkt hat, könnt ihr ihm gar nicht genug danken.
8 Passt auf, dass ihr nicht auf Weltanschauungen und Hirngespinste hereinfallt. All das haben sich Menschen ausgedacht; aber hinter ihren Gedanken stehen dunkle Mächte und nicht Christus. 9 Nur in Christus ist Gott wirklich zu finden, denn in ihm lebt er in seiner ganzen Fülle.[a] 10 Deshalb lebt Gott auch in euch, wenn ihr mit Christus verbunden seid. Er ist der Herr über alle Mächte und Gewalten.
11 Durch euren Glauben an Christus habt ihr euer altes, sündiges Leben aufgegeben. Nun seid auch ihr Beschnittene – nicht durch eine äußerliche Beschneidung, wie Menschen sie vornehmen, sondern durch die Beschneidung, wie ihr sie durch Christus erfahren habt. 12 Damit meine ich die Taufe, die euer altes Leben beendet hat; durch sie wurdet ihr mit Christus begraben. Ebenso seid ihr auch mit Christus zu einem neuen Leben auferweckt worden durch den Glauben an die Kraft Gottes, der ihn von den Toten auferstehen ließ. 13 Früher wart ihr gewissermaßen unbeschnitten, denn ihr habt euch von eurer sündigen Natur bestimmen lassen und wart durch eure Schuld von Gott getrennt. In seinen Augen wart ihr tot, aber er hat euch mit Christus lebendig gemacht und alle Schuld vergeben.
14 Gott hat den Schuldschein, der uns mit seinen Forderungen so schwer belastete, für ungültig erklärt. Ja, er hat ihn zusammen mit Jesus ans Kreuz genagelt und somit auf ewig vernichtet. 15 Auf diese Weise wurden die Mächte und Gewalten entwaffnet und in ihrer Ohnmacht bloßgestellt, als Christus über sie am Kreuz triumphierte.
Freiheit durch Christus
16 Darum lasst euch keine Vorschriften machen über eure Ess- und Trinkgewohnheiten oder bestimmte Feiertage, über den Neumondtag und über das, was man am Sabbat tun darf oder nicht. 17 Das alles sind nur schwache Abbilder, ein Schatten von dem, was in Christus Wirklichkeit geworden ist.
18 Lasst eure Rettung deshalb von niemandem in Frage stellen. Schon gar nicht von solchen Leuten, die sich in falsch verstandener Demut gefallen, Engel zu verehren, und sich dabei stolz auf ihre Visionen berufen! Diese Menschen haben nicht den geringsten Grund, sich derart aufzuspielen. Sie drehen sich ja doch nur um sich selbst 19 und halten sich nicht mehr an Christus, der doch das Haupt der Gemeinde ist. Denn nur von ihm her kann die Gemeinde als sein Leib zusammengehalten werden und – gestützt durch die verschiedenen Gelenke und Bänder – so wachsen, wie Gott es will.
20 Wenn ihr nun mit Christus gestorben seid, dann seid ihr auch von den Mächten und Zwängen dieser Welt befreit. Weshalb unterwerft ihr euch dann von neuem ihren Forderungen und lebt so, als wäre diese Welt für euch maßgebend? 21 Weshalb lasst ihr euch vorschreiben: »Du darfst dieses nicht anfassen, jenes nicht essen und musst dich von ganz bestimmten Dingen fernhalten«? 22 Sie alle sind doch dazu da, dass man sie für sich nutzt und verzehrt. Warum also lasst ihr euch noch Vorschriften von Menschen machen? 23 Möglich, dass manche, die danach leben, den Anschein von Weisheit erwecken. Schließlich glänzen sie mit ihrer selbst erdachten Frömmigkeit, geben sich dabei auch noch bescheiden und schonen bei asketischen Übungen ihren Körper nicht. Doch das alles bringt uns Gott nicht näher, sondern es dient ausschließlich menschlichem Ehrgeiz und menschlicher Eitelkeit.
Footnotes
- 2,9 Oder: Nur in Christus lebt Gott mit seiner ganzen Fülle leibhaftig.
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