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For I want you to know how great is my solicitude for you [how severe an inward struggle I am engaged in for you] and for those [believers] at Laodicea, and for all who [[a]like yourselves] have never seen my face and known me personally.

[For my concern is] that their hearts may be [b]braced (comforted, cheered, and encouraged) as they are knit together in love, that they may come to have all the abounding wealth and blessings of assured conviction of understanding, and that they may become progressively [c]more intimately acquainted with and may know more definitely and accurately and thoroughly that mystic secret of God, [which is] Christ (the Anointed One).

In Him all the treasures of [divine] wisdom ([d]comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God) and [all the riches of spiritual] knowledge and enlightenment are stored up and lie hidden.

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 2:1 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
  2. Colossians 2:2 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
  3. Colossians 2:2 Richard Trench, Synonyms of the New Testament.
  4. Colossians 2:3 Alexander Souter, Pocket Lexicon.

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