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Colossians 2:7-9
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Colossians 2:7-9
EasyEnglish Bible
7 Get your strength from Christ himself, so that you become stronger and stronger.[a] Continue to believe the true message that we taught you. And thank God very much for everything.
8 Be careful that you do not believe any false teachers. The ideas that they teach may seem clever. But they really want to deceive you. They are ideas that have come from the human minds of our ancestors. Or ideas that come from spirits that belong to this world. They are not the true message about Christ. 9 The whole nature of God himself lives in Christ, in his human body.
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- 2:7 When Christians are united to Christ, he makes them grow stronger in their spirits.
Colossians 2:7-9
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Colossians 2:7-9
New International Version
7 rooted(A) and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught,(B) and overflowing with thankfulness.
8 See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy,(C) which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces[a] of this world(D) rather than on Christ.
9 For in Christ all the fullness(E) of the Deity lives in bodily form,
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- Colossians 2:8 Or the basic principles; also in verse 20
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