Same translation rules as before:
Because I wish you to know what kind of a struggle I have on your behalf, on behalf of those in Laodikeia, and as many as haven’t seen my face in the flesh, so that their hearts would be motivated having been brought together with love and as far as every wealth of the certainty of the conclusion, for the knowledge of the mystery of God, the Christ, which comes from seeing that mystery for yourselves, within whom (the Christ) are hidden all the treasures of the wisdom and knowledge. I say this thing, so that no one would defraud you folks with the use of probable arguments. Because if I am also away from you where the flesh is concerned, all the same I am together with you where the Spirit of Christ is concerned, rejoicing and looking at how you are ordered and drawn up and the solidity of your trust as far as the Christ is concerned.
Like you then received the Christ, Yeshua the Lord, walk by means of Him, rooted and constructed upon with Him and being stabilized in the faith just like you were taught, overflowing with thanksgiving. Look out for not any of you to be the guy carrying people off as captives through the philosophy and empty sleight of hand in line with the mythology of human beings, in line with the rudiments of the universe and not in line with the Christ; because within Him is the entire sum of what makes God “God” in a human body, and you are having been filled with Him who is the head of every beginning and authority, with whom also you were circumcised with a circumcision not made by human hands with the stripping off of the biological body with the circumcision from the Christ, being entombed together with Him by means of your baptism, with which you were also raised together with Him through the faith with the energies of the God who raised Him from the dead; and you folks being dead by the violations and foreskin of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having humored us where all the violations are concerned. Having wiped out the handwriting against us in the dogmas which were opposed to us, and he took it from the middle having nailed it securely to the cross; having stripped the beginnings and the authorities he flaunted them openly, having led them in chains in a triumphant parade by means of Him.
Don’t then let anyone judge you folks with food and with drink or with part of holy days or new moons or sabbaths; which things are shadows of what’s to come, yet the body casting the shadow belongs to the Christ. Don’t let anyone cheat you out of the prize wishing with humility and a religion of angels, setting foot upon what things he had seen, for no reason having a big head under his biological intellect, and not seizing the head, out of whom the entire body through the ligaments and sinews being supplied and brought together grows the growth of God.
If you died together with the Christ away from the rudiments of the universe, what are you following dogmas for like living by means of the universe? Don’t grasp neither taste neither handle, which things are all as far as what’s consumed by using them up, in line with the commandments and teachings of human beings, which are holding a message on the one hand of wisdom with voluntary religion and humility and unsparing treatment of the body, on the other hand not with any value in the direction of the gratification of the flesh.
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