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Colossians 2
Colossians 2:1-5
1For 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; 2that 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, 3in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden. 4Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech. 5For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
Paul struggles for Colossae and Laodicea that hearts be knit in love unto full assurance of understanding in God’s mystery—Christ—in whom all treasures of wisdom hide, lest persuasive speech delude them.
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Colossians 2:6-7
6As therefore you received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him, 7rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.
As the Colossians received Christ Jesus the Lord, they are to walk in Him—rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as they were taught, and abounding in thanksgiving.
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Colossians 2:8-12
8Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elemental spirits of the world, and not after Christ. 9For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily, 10and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power. 11In 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, 12having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
Paul warns against philosophy and empty deceit not according to Christ; in Him the fullness of Deity dwells bodily and believers are made full, circumcised in Christ, buried and raised with Him in baptism through faith.
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Colossians 2:13-15
13You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross. 15Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Dead in trespasses, believers were made alive with Christ, forgiven, as God wiped out the accusing record and nailed it to the cross, stripping and triumphing over principalities and powers.
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Colossians 2:16-19
16Let no one therefore judge you in eating or drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day, 17which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s. 18Let 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, 19and 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.
No one may judge them over food, feasts, or Sabbaths—shadows whose substance is Christ—nor disqualify them by ascetic angel-worship; growth comes by holding fast to the Head.
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Colossians 2:20-23
20If you died with Christ from the elemental spirits of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances, 21“Don’t handle, nor taste, nor touch” 22(all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men? 23These 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.
Having died with Christ from elemental spirits, they must not submit to “don’t handle, taste, touch” human precepts that look wise in self-made religion but cannot stop fleshly indulgence.
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