Colossians 2 ISV BSB Parallel

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1For I want you to know how much I struggle for you, for those in Laodicea, and for all who have never seen me face to face.

1For I want you to know how much I am struggling for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not met me face to face,

2Because they are united in love, I pray that their hearts may be encouraged by all the riches that come from a complete understanding of the full knowledge of the Messiah, who is the mystery of God.

2that they may be encouraged in heart, knit together in love, and filled with the full riches of complete understanding, so that they may know the mystery of God, namely Christ,

3In him are stored all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

3in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

4I say this so that no one will mislead you with nice-sounding rhetoric.

4I say this so that no one will deceive you by smooth rhetoric.

5For although I am physically absent, I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see how stable you are and how firm your faith in the Messiah is.

5For although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I delight to see your orderly condition and firm faith in Christ.

6So then, just as you have received the Messiah Jesus the Lord, continue to live dependent on him.

6Therefore, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in Him,

7For you have been rooted in him and are being built up and strengthened in the faith, just as you were taught, while you continue to be thankful.

7rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

8See to it that no one enslaves you through philosophy and empty deceit according to human tradition, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to the Messiah,

8See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.

9because all the essence of deity inhabits him in bodily form.

9For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.

10And you have been filled by him, who is the head of every ruler and authority.

10And you have been made complete in Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.

11In union with him you were also circumcised with a circumcision performed without human hands by stripping off the corrupt nature by the circumcision performed by the Messiah.

11In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands.

12When you were buried with the Messiah in baptism, you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.

12And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.

13Even when you were dead because of your offenses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with him when he forgave us all of our offenses,

13When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,

14having erased the charges that were brought against us, along with their obligations that were hostile to us. He took those charges away when he nailed them to the cross.

14having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!

15And when he had disarmed the rulers and the authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in the cross.

15And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

16Therefore, let no one judge you in matters of food and drink or with respect to a festival, a New Moon, or Sabbath days.

16Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.

17These are a shadow of the things to come, but the reality belongs to the Messiah.

17These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.

18Let no one who delights in humility and the worship of angels cheat you out of the prize by rejoicing about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up for no reason by his carnal mind.

18Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up without basis by his unspiritual mind.

19He does not hold on to the head, from whom the whole body, which is nourished and held together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God enables it.

19He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.

20If you have died with the Messiah to the basic principles of the world, why are you submitting to its decrees as though you still lived in the world?

20If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:

21"Don't handle this! Don't taste or touch that!"

21“Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”?

22All of these things will be destroyed as they are used, because they are based on human commands and teachings.

22These will all perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings.

23These things have the appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion, humility, and harsh treatment of the body, but they have no value against self-indulgence.

23Such restrictions indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-prescribed worship, their false humility, and their harsh treatment of the body; but they are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.

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