Colosians Chapter 2

Col 2

Preach Christ, not philosophy 

1 For, I want you to be aware of how old is the struggles I have, over you and those in Laodicea and as many that have not seen my face in the flesh.

2 At least, it is to encourage your hearts by the wealth/riches in Christ unto everybody, to the intent of harmonizing/accommodating/knitting you together in SELFLESS-LOVE, by understanding (synesis) and full-discernment of the information of the MYSTERY of God (the FATHER); 

3 in Whom, treasures of mental-knowledge (gnosis) and wisdom are hidden for everybody.

4 I say this, at least, nobody should be misled/be unreasonable by speculation/persuasive speech.

5 because, even if I am absent in flesh, on the contrary, cheer up, I am together with you in the SPIRIT. Take heed, to your orderliness/tidiness and to the firmness of your Faith unto Christ.

6 As you have accepted the Lord Christ Jesus, walk in Him.

7 be rooted and be built up in Him, to establish your Faith, just as you were taught in Him, super-abound in thanksgiving/worship.

Preach Christ's kind of circumcision and injunction, not legalism of Moses law. 

8 take-heed, never should anyone of you be taken captive, through philosophy of men and empty scam/deceit according to the handed-down traditional law and according to fundamental principles of the world, which are not according to Christ.

9 because, in His completion of things, all people will physically/bodily dwell permanently (together) in the nature of God (theotes). (Jh1:16) 

10 and in Him, you shall be fulfilled, Who is the Head (chief-leader) over, all the authorities of the ancient times (rules);... 

11.....in which you would have been circumcised with circumcision by the removal of the flesh on the body. But, in Christ, the circumcision is NOT made with hand, 

12 and through faith in the operation/working of baptism of God, WHO has raised Him out of the dead, you will be raised together with Him among those you would have been buried together with.

13 and you, who would have been among the dead person for the transgression, have been made to live together with Him, even with the foreskin (uncircumcised state) of your flesh, by granting us all forgiveness from transgressions by favour;

14 having nailed Him to the stake/cross, He blotted out/eliminated the handwritings of dogmas/ordinances against us, which has been adverse to us, and He removed them, out of the middle (like a partition wall - Eph 2:14)

15 He has removed/despoiled the Authorities even of the ancient times rules (of Judaism), and in out-spokenness/frankness, He made them a public example, and in Him, we are given a significant victory/making acclamatory procession among everybody.

16 therefore, someone in your SECTION should not judge/decide for you on act of eating (allowed/forbidden), and on drinking or on holy-days-feast or new-moons or sabbath days;

17 however, they were by the shadow of things whose the Body is intended to be of Christ.

18 none of you should be awarded/honored with prize, even in desiring the modesty/humbled-mind in the religion under a Messenger (Moses), who was seen to have interfered/stepped in, randomly/in vain, by making their mind and flesh brag.

19 and they did not hold fast to the Head, out from whom the body, through joints/ligaments/bonds should be knitted together/harmonized for everybody by a sense of touch to be fully supplied/nourished, and grow with the growth from God. (Eph4:16)

20 if you submit to dogmas of the world, even from the serial principles of the world, and you died off, how will you live on as those who are together with Christ?

21 - Touch not! Taste not! Never handle/have nothing to do with (others)! 

22 the usage of which are against everybody, and the doctrines and the commands/precepts are unto decay/ruins of men.

23 some of which hold on indeed to words of wisdom in self-imposed worship/religion of modesty/mind-humbling, with non-lenient treatment of their flesh, and not in the honor of their body but towards abundance/plenitude of some people