For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; Col 1:29Php 1:30Col 4:12-13Rev 3:14-22Rev 1:11Act 20:38Col 1:24Hos 12:3-4 that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ, Col 1:27Col 4:8Col 3:14Eph 6:22Rom 16:25Col 1:15-17Eph 3:9-10Php 3:8 in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden. 1Co 1:241Co 1:30Rom 11:331Co 2:6-82Ti 3:15-17Col 1:9Eph 3:9-10Eph 1:8 Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech. 1Jn 4:1Eph 4:14Mat 24:4Rom 16:18-192Jn 1:7Mrk 13:221Ti 4:1-22Co 11:11-13 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ. 1Co 5:3-41Th 2:171Co 16:131Pe 5:92Pe 3:17-181Co 14:40Heb 3:141Co 15:58
As therefore you received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him, Col 1:101Jn 2:61Th 4:1Eph 5:1-2Gal 2:202Co 5:7Col 3:17Php 1:27 rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving. Eph 3:17Jer 17:8Eph 2:20-22Jhn 15:4-5Col 1:232Pe 3:17-182Th 2:17Col 1:12-13
Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elemental spirits of the world, and not after Christ. 1Ti 6:20Eph 5:6Mat 7:15Gal 4:91Co 3:18-19Rom 1:21-22Col 2:202Ti 3:13 For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily, Col 1:19Jhn 1:14Jhn 10:301Ti 3:16Jhn 14:9-101Jn 5:20Jhn 10:38Jhn 14:20 and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power. Eph 3:19Col 1:16-181Co 1:30-311Pe 3:22Eph 1:20-23Php 2:9-11Heb 5:9Jhn 1:16 In him you were also 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 Christ, Rom 2:29Php 3:3Rom 6:6Deu 30:6Eph 4:22Gal 5:24Col 3:8-9Gal 2:20 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. Rom 6:3-51Pe 3:21Gal 3:27Eph 2:4-6Col 3:1-2Act 2:24Eph 4:5Eph 1:19-20 You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, Eph 2:5-6Rom 8:11Eph 2:12Co 5:19Heb 9:142Co 3:61Jn 1:7-9Eph 2:11 wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross. Eph 2:14-16Isa 44:22Isa 43:25Heb 8:131Pe 2:24Col 2:20Heb 7:18Heb 10:8-9 Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. Heb 2:14Eph 4:8Mat 12:29Jhn 12:31-32Isa 53:12Eph 6:12Jhn 16:11Luk 10:18
Let no one therefore judge you in eating or drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day, Rom 14:5-6Rom 14:10Gal 4:10Rom 14:13-17Rom 14:2-3Heb 13:9Ezk 45:171Ch 23:31 which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s. Heb 10:1Heb 8:5Jhn 1:17Heb 9:9Heb 4:1-11Mat 11:28-29 Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, Col 2:81Jn 4:1-2Col 2:231Ti 1:71Ti 4:1Rev 22:8-91Co 8:5-6Rom 1:25 and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth. Eph 4:15-16Jhn 15:4-61Pe 3:81Ti 2:4-62Pe 3:18Col 2:2Rom 12:4-51Th 3:12
If you died with Christ from the elemental spirits of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances, Col 2:8Col 2:14Col 2:16Gal 4:3Rom 7:4-61Jn 5:19Heb 13:91Pe 4:1-3 “Don’t handle, nor taste, nor touch” 1Ti 4:3Isa 52:11Gen 3:32Co 6:17 (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men? Isa 29:13Tit 1:141Co 6:13Mrk 7:18-19Mrk 7:7-13Jhn 6:27Mat 15:3-9Dan 11:37 These things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, humility, and severity to the body, but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh. 1Ti 4:8Col 2:18Col 2:22Col 2:82Co 11:13-15Eph 5:29Mat 23:27-281Ti 4:3