The Book of Colossians - verse by verse

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Colossians 2:18 Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind,

 

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Colossians 2:19 and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.

 

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Colossians 2:20 If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations—

 

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Colossians 2:21 “Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch”

 

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Colossians 2:22 (referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to human precepts and teachings?

 

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Colossians 2:23 These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.

 

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Colossians 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

 

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Colossians 3:2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

 

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Colossians 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

 

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

 

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Colossians 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

 

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Colossians 3:6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:

 

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Colossians 3:7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.

 

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Colossians 3:8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

 

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Colossians 3:9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

 

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Colossians 3:10 And have put on the new [man], which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

 

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Colossians 3:11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond [nor] free: but Christ [is] all, and in all.

 

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Colossians 3:12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

 

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Colossians 3:13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also [do] ye.

 

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Colossians 3:14 And above all these things [put on] charity, which is the bond of perfectness.