I want for you to have known how great a struggle I am having for you, and those in Laodicea, and as many as not have seen the face of me in [the] flesh,

that may be encouraged the hearts of them, being knit together in love, and to all richness of the full assurance of understanding, to [the] knowledge of the mystery of God, [which is] Christ,

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

This I say so that no one you may delude by persuasive speech.

If truly indeed in the flesh I am absent, yet in spirit with you I am, rejoicing and seeing your good order and the firmness of the in Christ faith of you.

Just as therefore you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, in Him do walk,

rooted and being built up in Him, and being strengthened in the faith just as you were taught, abounding with thanksgiving.

do take heed lest anyone you there will be who is taking captive through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the principles of the world and not according to Christ.

For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Deity bodily;

and you are in Him completed, who is the head of all rule and authority,

in whom also you were circumcised with [the] circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ,

having been buried with Him in baptism, in which also you were raised with [Him] through the faith of the working of God, the [One who] having raised Him out from [the] dead.

And you dead being in the trespasses and in the uncircumcision of the flesh of you, He made alive together you with Him, having forgiven us all the transgressions,

having blotted out the against us handwriting in the decrees, which was adverse to us; and it He has taken out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

Having disarmed the rulers and the authorities, He made a show [of them] in public, having triumphed over them in it.

Not therefore anyone you should judge in regard to food, or in regard to drink, or in regard to a feast, or a New Moon, or Sabbaths,

which are a shadow of the things coming; the however body [is] of Christ.

No one you should disqualify, delighting in humility and [the] worship of the angels, which he has seen detailing, vainly being puffed up by the mind of the flesh of him,

and not holding fast to the head, from whom all the body, by the joints and ligaments being supplied and being knit together, increases with the increase of God.

If you have died with Christ away from the principles of the world, why as if living in [the] world, do you submit to decrees:

Not you may handle! Not you may taste! Not you may touch!

which are all unto decay with the use, according to the commandments and teachings of men,

which are an appearance indeed having of wisdom, with self-imposed worship and with humility and with harsh treatment of [the] body, not of honor a certain, against [the] indulgence of the flesh.