Colossians verse by verse (2)

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Colossians 2:13

When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,

 

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Colossians 2:14

having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.

 

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Colossians 2:15
And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

 

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Colossians 2:16
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

 

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Colossians 2:17

These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.

 

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Colossians 2:18

Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind.

 

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Colossians 2:19

They have lost connection with the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.

 

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Colossians 2:20

Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules:

 

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Colossians 2:21

"Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!"?

 

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Colossians 2:22

These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings.

 

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Colossians 2:23
Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will-worship, and humility, and severity to the body; [but are] not of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

 

[RitaKay]

Colossians 3:1

Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

 

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Colossians 3:2
Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth.

 

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Colossians 3:3

For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

 

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Colossians 3:4
When Christ, [who is] our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory.

 

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Colossians 3:5
Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry

 

[RitaKay]

Colossians 3:6

Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.

 

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Colossians 3:7

You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived.

 

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Colossians 3:8

But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.

 

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Colossians 3:9

Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices