Book of Common Prayer
Don’t Be Taken Captive By Human Thinking, Because All God’s Fullness Is In Christ
8 Be watching-out that there will not be anyone taking you captive through philosophy and empty deception according-to[a] the tradition of humans, according to the elemental things[b] of the world, and not according to Christ, 9 because in Him dwells all the fullness of the Deity[c] bodily[d].
You Are Complete In Christ, With Whom You Have Been Buried And Raised Up
10 And in Him you are complete[e], Who is the head of all rule[f] and authority, 11 in Whom you also were circumcised with a circumcision not-done-by-human-hands, in[g] the taking-off [h] of the body[i] of the flesh in the circumcision of [j] Christ— 12 having been buried-with Him in baptism, in which[k] you also were raised-with Him through faith in the working of God, the One having raised Him from the dead.
Indeed, God Made Us Alive With Christ, Having Forgiven All Our Trespasses
13 Indeed, you being dead in the trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh— He made you alive-together with Him, having forgiven us all the trespasses, 14 having wiped-out[l] the written-document[m] against us with[n] its decrees, which was opposed to us. Indeed, He has taken it out of the middle, having nailed it to the cross! 15 Having stripped[o] the rulers and the authorities, He exposed them in public, having celebrated-a-triumph-over[p] them in Him[q]!
Let No One Judge Your Behavior By False Standards
16 Therefore let no one judge you in eating and in drinking, or in respect to a feast or new-moon or Sabbath, 17 which are a shadow of the coming things, but the body[r] is Christ’s. 18 Let no one decide-against you while delighting[s] in humility[t] and worship of [u] angels, dwelling-upon[v] things which he has seen, being puffed-up in-vain by the mind of [w] his flesh, 19 and not holding-on-to[x] the head— from Whom the whole body, being supplied[y] and held-together by the joints and ligaments, is growing the growth of [z] God.
Since You Died With Christ, Do Not Submit To Human Decrees
20 If you died with Christ from[aa] the elemental[ab] things of the world, why, as-though living in the world, do you submit-to-decrees (21 “Do not handle, nor taste, nor touch”; 22 Things which[ac] are all for[ad] perishing[ae] in the use[af]!) according-to the commandments and teachings of humans?— 23 which are indeed having the talk[ag] of wisdom in-connection-with will-worship[ah] and humility[ai] and harsh-treatment[aj] of the body, not[ak] in-connection-with any [real] value against the indulgence of the flesh.
The Blind Cannot Guide The Blind. Correct Yourself First
39 And He also spoke a parable to them— “A blind one is not able to guide a blind one, is he? Will they not both fall into a pit? 40 A disciple is not above the teacher. But everyone having been fully-trained will be like his teacher. 41 And why do you look-at the speck in the eye of your brother, but do not consider[a] the log in your own eye? 42 How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, permit me to take-out the speck in your eye’, while yourself not seeing the log in your eye? Hypocrite! First take out the log from your eye. And then you will see-clearly to take out the speck in the eye of your brother.
A Tree Is Known By Its Fruit. The Mouth Speaks From The Heart
43 “For there is no good[b] tree producing bad fruit; nor again, a bad tree producing good fruit. 44 For each tree is known[c] by its own fruit. For they do not collect figs from thorns, nor do they gather a grape-bunch from a bramble-bush. 45 The good person brings forth the good thing out of the good treasure[d] of his heart. And the evil person brings forth the evil thing out of his evil treasure. For his mouth speaks out of the abundance of the heart.
Don’t Just Call Me Lord. Be a Doer of My Words
46 “And why are you calling Me ‘Lord, Lord[e]’, and you are not doing the things which I say? 47 Everyone coming to Me and hearing My words and doing them— I will show you to whom he is like. 48 He is like a man building a house who dug, and went down deep, and laid a foundation on the bed-rock. And a flood[f] having come about, the river broke-against[g] that house. And it was not strong-enough to shake it, because it had been built well. 49 But the one having heard and not having done My words is like a man having built a house on the ground without a foundation, which the river broke-against. And immediately it collapsed, and the breakage of that house became great”.
Disciples' Literal New Testament: Serving Modern Disciples by More Fully Reflecting the Writing Style of the Ancient Disciples, Copyright © 2011 Michael J. Magill. All Rights Reserved. Published by Reyma Publishing