Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day, which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.
18.1
Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen,
18.2
vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
19.1
and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.
20.1
If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances, “Don’t handle, nor taste, nor touch” (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?
23.1
These things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, humility, and severity to the body; but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.
Chapter 3
1.1
If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
2.1
Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
3.1
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
4.1
When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.
5.1
Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
6.1
For these things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience. You also once walked in those, when you lived in them; but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.
9.1
Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings, and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
Chapter 2
1
For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,
Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.
In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ,
You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.
These things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, humility, and severity to the body; but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.
If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
2
Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
3
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
4
When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.
5
Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
6
For these things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
7
You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;
8
but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.
9
Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,
10
and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,