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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？

21Bản dịch này không có đoạn Kinh Thánh này.

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。

1For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,

2that their hearts may be comforted, being united in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, to the full knowledge of the secret of the God and Father, and of the Christ,

3in whom are all the treasures of the wisdom and the knowledge hid,

4and this I say, that no one may beguile you in enticing words,

5for if even in the flesh I am absent — yet in the spirit I am with you, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in regard to Christ;

6as, then, ye did receive Christ Jesus the Lord, in him walk ye,

7being rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye were taught — abounding in it in thanksgiving.

8See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

9because in him doth tabernacle all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,

10and ye are in him made full, who is the head of all principality and authority,

11in whom also ye were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh in the circumcision of the Christ,

12being buried with him in the baptism, in which also ye rose with [him] through the faith of the working of God, who did raise him out of the dead.

13And you — being dead in the trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh — He made alive together with him, having forgiven you all the trespasses,

14having blotted out the handwriting in the ordinances that is against us, that was contrary to us, and he hath taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;

15having stripped the principalities and the authorities, he made a shew of them openly — having triumphed over them in it.

16Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,

17which are a shadow of the coming things, and the body [is] of the Christ;

18let no one beguile you of your prize, delighting in humble-mindedness and [in] worship of the messengers, intruding into the things he hath not seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

19and not holding the head, from which all the body — through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit together — may increase with the increase of God.

20If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?

21— thou mayest not touch, nor taste, nor handle —

22which are all for destruction with the using, after the commands and teachings of men,

23which are, indeed, having a matter of wisdom in will-worship, and humble-mindedness, and neglecting of body — not in any honour, unto a satisfying of the flesh.