Colossians 2

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;Cross-references: Gen 30:8 · Gen 32:24 · Hos 12:3 · Luke 22:44 · Acts 20:25 · Acts 20:38 · +12 more

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,Cross-references: Ps 133:1 · Isa 32:17 · Isa 40:1 · Isa 53:11 · Jer 9:24 · Matt 11:25 · +41 more

3in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.Cross-references: Job 28:21 · Prov 2:4 · Isa 11:2 · Matt 10:26 · Rom 11:33 · 1Cor 1:24 · +10 more

4Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.Cross-references: Matt 24:4 · Matt 24:24 · Mark 13:22 · Acts 20:30 · Rom 16:18 · 1Cor 2:4 · +21 more

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.Cross-references: Ruth 1:18 · 2Chr 29:35 · Ps 78:8 · Ps 78:37 · Acts 2:42 · 1Cor 5:3 · +11 more

6As therefore you received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him,Cross-references: Isa 2:5 · Mic 4:2 · Matt 10:40 · John 1:12 · John 13:20 · John 14:6 · +15 more

7rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.Cross-references: Ps 1:3 · Ps 92:13 · Isa 61:3 · Jer 17:8 · Ezek 17:23 · Matt 7:24 · +23 more

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.Cross-references: Deut 6:12 · Song 2:15 · Jer 29:8 · Matt 7:15 · Matt 10:17 · Matt 15:2 · +27 more

9For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily,Cross-references: Isa 7:14 · Matt 1:23 · Luke 3:22 · John 1:14 · John 2:21 · John 10:30 · +11 moreExamined: Quran & the Bible →

10and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power.Cross-references: John 1:16 · 1Cor 1:30 · Gal 3:26 · Eph 1:20 · Eph 3:19 · Eph 4:15 · +6 more

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,Cross-references: Deut 10:16 · Deut 30:6 · Jer 4:4 · Mark 14:58 · Luke 2:21 · Acts 7:48 · +14 more

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.Cross-references: Luke 17:5 · John 1:12 · John 3:3 · Acts 2:24 · Acts 14:27 · Rom 4:24 · +22 more

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,Cross-references: Ps 32:1 · Ps 71:20 · Ps 119:50 · Isa 1:18 · Isa 55:7 · Jer 31:34 · +29 more

14wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.Cross-references: Num 5:23 · Neh 4:5 · Esth 3:12 · Esth 8:8 · Ps 51:1 · Ps 51:9 · +15 more

15Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.Cross-references: Gen 3:15 · Ps 68:18 · Isa 49:24 · Isa 53:12 · Matt 12:29 · Luke 10:18 · +15 more

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,Cross-references: Lev 11:2 · Lev 16:31 · Lev 17:10 · Lev 23:1 · Num 10:10 · Num 28:1 · +34 more

17which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.Cross-references: Matt 11:28 · John 1:17 · Heb 4:1 · Heb 8:5 · Heb 9:9 · Heb 10:1

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,Cross-references: Gen 3:13 · Num 25:18 · Deut 29:29 · Job 38:2 · Ps 138:1 · Isa 57:9 · +34 more

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.Cross-references: Job 19:9 · Ps 139:15 · John 15:4 · John 17:21 · Acts 4:32 · Rom 11:17 · +23 more

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,Cross-references: John 15:19 · John 17:14 · Rom 6:2 · Rom 7:4 · 2Cor 10:3 · Gal 2:19 · +12 more

21“Don’t handle, nor taste, nor touch”Cross-references: Gen 3:3 · Isa 52:11 · 2Cor 6:17 · 1Tim 4:3

22(all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?Cross-references: Isa 29:13 · Isa 29:18 · Dan 11:37 · Matt 15:3 · Mark 7:7 · Mark 7:18 · +4 more

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.Cross-references: Gen 3:5 · Matt 23:27 · 2Cor 11:13 · Eph 5:29 · Col 2:8 · Col 2:18 · +3 more