Journey Through the Gospel of Luke

Like the World Has Never Seen

[Songs of Praise] Bookends of Majesty

94x50: Discipleship on the Court

Acts 10:34-48 | Confronting Your Blind Spots

You Complete Me

Grow in Faith: Renew Your Mind

Spiritually Gifted

Thriving in Uncertain Times to Gain a Confident Future

Worship Initiative | Psalms From the Well Vol. 2

The Listener’s Bible®: NIV Edition

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Holy Bible, New International Version™ (Anglicised), South Asian Audio Edition

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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="COL.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I want you to know how hard I am contending for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not met me personally. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="COL.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="COL.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="COL.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I tell you this so that no one may deceive you by fine-sounding arguments. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="COL.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For though I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit and delight to see how disciplined you are and how firm your faith in Christ is.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Spiritual Fullness in Christ</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="COL.2.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="COL.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="COL.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="COL.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="COL.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the basic principles</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 20</span></span></span><span class="content"> of this world rather than on Christ.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="COL.2.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="COL.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="COL.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="COL.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:11 </span><span class="ft">In contexts like this, the Greek word for </span><span class="fq">flesh </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">sarx</span>) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit; also in verse 13.</span></span></span><span class="content"> was put off when you were circumcised by</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">put off in the circumcision of</span></span></span><span class="content"> Christ, </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="COL.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="COL.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="COL.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:13 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">us</span></span></span><span class="content"> alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="COL.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">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. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="COL.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">them in him</span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Freedom From Human Rules</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="COL.2.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="COL.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="COL.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="COL.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">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. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="COL.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">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.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="COL.2.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="COL.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">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: </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="COL.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!&#8221;? </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="COL.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="COL.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.16.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Kings take pleasure in honest lips;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.16.13"><span class="content">they value the one who speaks what is right.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.16.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.16.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">A king&#8217;s wrath is a messenger of death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.16.14"><span class="content">but the wise will appease it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.16.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.16.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When a king&#8217;s face brightens, it means life;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.16.15"><span class="content">his favor is like a rain cloud in spring.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.16.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.16.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">How much better to get wisdom than gold,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.16.16"><span class="content">to get insight rather than silver!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.16.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.16.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The highway of the upright avoids evil;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.16.17"><span class="content">those who guard their ways preserve their lives.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.16.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.16.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Pride goes before destruction,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.16.18"><span class="content">a haughty spirit before a fall.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.16.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.16.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Better to be lowly in spirit along with the oppressed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.16.19"><span class="content">than to share plunder with the proud.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.16.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.16.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Whoever gives heed to instruction prospers,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:20 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">whoever speaks prudently finds what is good</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.16.20"><span class="content">and blessed is the one who trusts in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.16.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.16.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The wise in heart are called discerning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.16.21"><span class="content">and gracious words promote instruction.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">words make a person persuasive</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.16.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.16.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Prudence is a fountain of life to the prudent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.16.22"><span class="content">but folly brings punishment to fools.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.16.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.16.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The hearts of the wise make their mouths prudent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.16.23"><span class="content">and their lips promote instruction.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:23 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">prudent / and make their lips persuasive</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.16.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.16.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Gracious words are a honeycomb,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.16.24"><span class="content">sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.</span></span></div>
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