1For I would have you know, how great a conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh: 2That their hearts may be comforted, being knit together in love, even unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, unto the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, 3both the Father and Christ, In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 4And this I say, that no man may beguile you with inticing words. 5For though I am absent from you in the flesh, yet I am present with you in spirit, rejoicing to behold your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ. 6As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him; 7Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. 8Beware lest any man make a prey of you through philosophy and empty deceit, after the traditions of men, after the rudiments of this world, and not after Christ. 9For in him dwelleth the fulness of the Godhead bodily. 10And ye are filled by him, who is the head of all principality and power. 11By whom also ye are circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ: 12Buried with him in baptism, by which ye are also risen with him, through the faith of the operation of God, who raised him from the dead. 13And you who were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, 14having forgiven you all trespasses, Having blotted out by his decrees the hand-writing against us, which was contrary to us; and having nailed it to his cross, he took it out of the way. 15And having spoiled the principalities and powers, he exposed them openly, triumphing over them in him. 16Let none therefore judge you in meat, or drink, or in respect of a feast-day, or of the new-moon, or of sabbath-days: Which are shadow of things to come; 17but the body is of Christ. 18Let none defraud you of your reward by a voluntary humility and worship of angels, intruding into the things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 19And not holding the head, from which all the body being nourished and knit together, by the joints and ligaments, increaseth with the increase of God. 20Therefore if ye are dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, receive ye ordinances, 21(Touch not, taste not, handle not: 22All which are to perish in the using) after the commandments and doctrines of men? 23Which things (though they have indeed a shew of wisdom, in voluntary worship and humility, and not sparing the body) yet are not of any value, but are to the satisfying of the flesh.