Colossians

1我愿意你们晓得，我为你们和老底嘉人，并一切没有与我亲自见面的人，是何等地尽心竭力；

2要叫他们的心得安慰，因爱心互相联络，以致丰丰足足在悟性中有充足的信心，使他们真知 神的奥秘，就是基督；

3所积蓄的一切智慧知识，都在他里面藏着。

4我说这话，免得有人用花言巧语迷惑你们。

5我身子虽与你们相离，心却与你们同在，见你们循规蹈矩，信基督的心也坚固，我就欢喜了。

基督里生命的丰盛

6你们既然接受了主基督耶稣，就当遵他而行，

7在他里面生根建造，信心坚固，正如你们所领的教训，感谢的心也更增长了。

8你们要谨慎，恐怕有人用他的理学和虚空的妄言，不照着基督，乃照人间的遗传和世上的小学就把你们掳去。

9因为 神本性一切的丰盛都有形有体地居住在基督里面，

10你们在他里面也得了丰盛。他是各样执政掌权者的元首。

11你们在他里面也受了不是人手所行的割礼，乃是基督使你们脱去肉体情欲的割礼。

12你们既受洗与他一同埋葬，也就在此与他一同复活，都因信那叫他从死里复活 神的功用。

13你们从前在过犯和未受割礼的肉体中死了， 神赦免了你们一切过犯，便叫你们与基督一同活过来；

14又涂抹了在律例上所写、攻击我们、有碍于我们的字据，把它撤去，钉在十字架上。

15既将一切执政的、掌权的掳来，明显给众人看，就仗着十字架夸胜。

16所以，不拘在饮食上，或节期、月朔、安息日都不可让人论断你们。

17这些原是后事的影儿；那形体却是基督。

18不可让人因着故意谦虚和敬拜天使，就夺去你们的奖赏。这等人拘泥在所见过的，随着自己的欲心，无故地自高自大，

19不持定元首。全身既然靠着他，筋节得以相助联络，就因 神大得长进。

基督里的新生活

20你们若是与基督同死，脱离了世上的小学，为什么仍像在世俗中活着、服从那「不可拿、不可尝、不可摸」等类的规条呢？

21This translation does not include this passage.

22这都是照人所吩咐、所教导的。说到这一切，正用的时候就都败坏了。

23这些规条使人徒有智慧之名，用私意崇拜，自表谦卑，苦待己身，其实在克制肉体的情欲上是毫无功效。

Absent in Body, Present in Spirit

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,

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 whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

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

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.

Alive with Christ

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to 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 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 body that casts it belongs to Christ.

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 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 Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:

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

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

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.