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Don’t Be Taken Captive By Human Thinking, Because All God’s Fullness Is In Christ

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, 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,

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 2:8 Or, based on, by way of.
  2. Colossians 2:8 That is, the elementary knowledge of God available in the world before Christ, the world’s rudimentary teachings about God; or, the elemental spiritual beings or angels, the spirit powers.
  3. Colossians 2:9 That is, the divine essence or nature. This is an abstract term for ‘God’.
  4. Colossians 2:9 That is, in bodily form, in a bodily manner.
  5. Colossians 2:10 That is, are in a state of completeness.
  6. Colossians 2:10 Or, every ruler.

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