These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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Colossians 2
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- 1 For I would have you in how severe a struggle I am engaged on behalf of you and the brethren in Laodicea and of all who have not known me personally,
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in order that their hearts may be cheered, they themselves being welded together in and enjoying all the advantages of a reasonable certainty, till at last they attain the full knowledge of Elohim’s , which is Himself.
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Colossians 4:8 Colossians 3:14 Ephesians 6:22 Colossians 1:27 Colossians 1:15-17 John 17:21-23 Hebrews 6:11 Ephesians 1:17-19 1 Thessalonians 5:14 John 1:1-3 John 10:30 John 14:9-11 Isaiah 53:11 1 Thessalonians 1:5 Colossians 1:9 Ephesians 3:9-10 John 6:69 Philippians 2:1 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 Psalm 133:1 Galatians 3:28 John 16:15 1 Timothy 3:16 Matthew 11:25 2 Peter 1:3 Acts 4:32 Hebrews 10:22 2 Corinthians 1:4-6 John 5:17 John 10:38 Isaiah 32:17 Matthew 11:27 John 17:3 Romans 15:13 Philippians 3:8 1 Corinthians 2:12 Luke 10:21-22 Jeremiah 9:24 John 5:23 Romans 16:25 1 Thessalonians 3:2 Isaiah 40:1 2 Peter 1:10 2 Peter 3:18 1 John 4:12-13 1 John 3:19 1 John 5:7 - 3 In Him all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are stored up, hidden from view.
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I say this to prevent your being misled by any one’s plausible sophistry.
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Ephesians 5:6 Romans 16:18-19 Titus 1:10-11 2 Timothy 2:16 1 John 2:26 Matthew 24:24 2 John 1:7 2 Thessalonians 2:9-11 1 Timothy 4:1-2 Revelation 12:9 Revelation 20:3 1 John 4:1 1 Peter 2:1-3 Colossians 2:18 Ephesians 4:14 Matthew 24:4 Galatians 2:4 2 Timothy 3:13 Mark 13:22 2 Corinthians 11:3 Colossians 2:8 Revelation 20:8 Revelation 13:8 Acts 20:30 1 John 2:18 1 Corinthians 2:4 2 Corinthians 11:11-13 - 5 For although, as you say, I am absent from you in body, yet in I am present with you and am delighted to witness your good discipline and the solid front presented by your in .
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As therefore you have received the , even our Lord, live and act in vital union with Him;
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having the roots of your being firmly planted in Him, and continually building yourselves up in Him, and always being increasingly confirmed in the as you were taught it, and abounding in it with thanksgiving.
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Ephesians 3:17 Ephesians 2:20-22 Colossians 1:23 2 Thessalonians 2:17 Colossians 1:12-13 Romans 11:17-18 Ephesians 5:20 Psalm 92:13 Romans 16:25 2 Peter 3:17-18 1 Peter 2:4-6 Ephesians 4:21 Jude 1:12 Matthew 7:24-25 Ezekiel 17:23-24 Jeremiah 17:8 Luke 6:48 1 Corinthians 15:58 Jude 1:24 1 Peter 5:10 1 Corinthians 3:9-15 Jude 1:20 Psalm 1:3 2 Corinthians 1:21 Colossians 3:17 Isaiah 61:3 Hebrews 13:15 1 Thessalonians 5:18 John 15:4-5 -
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Take care lest there be some one who leads you away as prisoners by means of his philosophy and idle fancies, following human traditions and the world’s crude notions instead of following .
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1 Timothy 6:20 Ephesians 5:6 Colossians 2:20 Galatians 4:3 Romans 1:21-22 Matthew 7:15 Colossians 2:22 1 Corinthians 3:18-19 Galatians 4:9 2 John 1:8 Philippians 3:2 Colossians 2:18 Song of Solomon 2:15 Matthew 10:17 Hebrews 13:9 Jeremiah 29:8 Matthew 15:2-9 Deuteronomy 6:12 2 Timothy 3:13 Ephesians 2:2 2 Peter 3:17 1 Peter 1:18 Romans 16:17 Acts 17:32 2 Timothy 2:17-18 Acts 17:18 2 Corinthians 10:5 Mark 7:3-13 Ephesians 4:20 Galatians 1:14 1 Corinthians 1:19-23 1 Corinthians 15:35-36 Matthew 16:6 - 9 For it is in that the fulness of Elohim’s nature dwells embodied, and in Him you are made complete,
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In Him also you were circumcised with a circumcision not performed by hand, when you threw off your sinful nature in true Messiahian circumcision;
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having been buried with Him in your , in which you were also raised with Him through produced within you by who raised Him from among the dead.
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Romans 6:3-5 Acts 2:24 1 Peter 3:21 Ephesians 4:5 Romans 4:24 Ephesians 3:17 Galatians 3:27 Ephesians 1:19-20 Colossians 3:1-2 Ephesians 2:8 Ephesians 2:4-6 Hebrews 12:2 Romans 7:4 Ephesians 5:14 James 1:16-17 Ephesians 3:7 Philippians 1:29 Hebrews 13:20-21 1 Corinthians 12:13 1 Corinthians 15:20 Titus 3:5-6 Hebrews 6:2 John 3:3-7 Luke 17:5 Acts 14:27 Romans 6:8-11 1 Peter 4:1-3 John 1:12-13 -
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And to you—dead as you once were in your transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your natural state—He has nevertheless given Life with Himself, having forgiven us all our transgressions.
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Ephesians 2:1 James 2:26 1 John 1:7-9 Romans 4:17 Psalm 119:50 John 6:63 Jeremiah 31:34 Luke 15:32 Luke 15:24 2 Corinthians 5:19 1 Corinthians 15:45 1 Timothy 5:6 Isaiah 55:7 Psalm 71:20 Romans 8:11 Ephesians 2:5-6 Ezekiel 37:1-10 Hebrews 9:14 Psalm 32:1 1 Corinthians 15:36 1 Timothy 6:13 Ephesians 2:11 1 John 2:12 Hebrews 6:1 Romans 6:13 Hebrews 8:10-12 John 5:21 Acts 13:38-39 2 Corinthians 3:6 Ephesians 5:14 Luke 9:60 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 Isaiah 1:18 James 2:17 James 2:20 -
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The bond, with its requirements, which was in force against us and was hostile to us, He cancelled, and cleared it out of the way, nailing it to His Cross.
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And the hostile princes and rulers He shook off from Himself, and boldly displayed them as His conquests, when by the Cross He triumphed over them.
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Therefore suffer no one to sit in judgement on you as to eating or drinking or with regard to a festival, a new moon or a .
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Romans 14:5-6 Galatians 4:10 Romans 14:10 1 Chronicles 23:31 Romans 14:13-17 Hebrews 9:10 Ezekiel 45:17 Romans 14:20-21 1 Corinthians 10:28-31 Galatians 2:12-13 Mark 7:19 Romans 14:2-3 1 Timothy 4:3-5 Nehemiah 10:33 Ezekiel 4:14 Nehemiah 8:9 Leviticus 17:10-15 Acts 11:3-18 Isaiah 1:13 Deuteronomy 16:1-17 Numbers 28:1-29 James 4:11 Psalm 42:4 Hebrews 13:9 Deuteronomy 14:3-21 Matthew 15:11 1 Samuel 20:5 Leviticus 11:2-47 Ezekiel 46:1-3 1 Corinthians 8:7-13 Psalm 81:3 Amos 8:5 2 Kings 4:23 Mark 2:27-28 1 Samuel 20:18 Numbers 10:10 Leviticus 23:1-44 Nehemiah 10:31 Leviticus 16:31 Acts 15:20 -
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These were a shadow of things that were soon to come, but the substance belongs to .
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Let no one defraud you of your prize, priding himself on his humility and on his of the angels, and taking his stand on the visions he has seen, and idly puffed up with his unspiritual thoughts.
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Colossians 2:8 Colossians 2:23 1 Timothy 1:7 1 Timothy 4:1 James 4:1-6 Revelation 22:8-9 Deuteronomy 29:29 2 Corinthians 11:3 Philippians 3:14 Revelation 13:14 1 Corinthians 4:18 1 John 2:26 Romans 8:6-8 1 Corinthians 8:5-6 Colossians 2:4 Numbers 25:18 Ezekiel 13:3 Ephesians 5:6 Revelation 19:10 Daniel 11:38 Galatians 5:19-20 2 John 1:7-11 2 Peter 2:14 2 Corinthians 12:20 1 John 4:1-2 1 Corinthians 9:24 1 Corinthians 13:4 Job 38:2 Revelation 3:11 Matthew 24:24 Revelation 12:9 Psalm 138:1-2 Romans 16:18 James 3:14-16 Genesis 3:13 Romans 1:25 Revelation 13:8 1 Corinthians 8:1 1 Corinthians 3:3 Isaiah 57:9 -
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Such a one does not keep his hold upon , the Head, from whom the Body, in all its parts nourished and strengthened by its points of contact and its connections, grows with a divine growth.
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Ephesians 4:15-16 Job 19:9-12 Philippians 1:27 Ephesians 5:29 Romans 12:4-5 Galatians 5:2-4 Colossians 1:18 John 17:21 1 Timothy 2:4-6 2 Peter 3:18 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 1 Corinthians 1:10 Colossians 2:6-9 Acts 4:32 1 Peter 3:8 1 Thessalonians 3:12 1 Thessalonians 4:10 Romans 11:17 John 15:4-6 1 Corinthians 3:6 Colossians 2:2 Ephesians 4:3 Galatians 1:6-9 2 Thessalonians 1:3 Colossians 1:10 Ephesians 1:22 Psalm 139:15-16 1 Corinthians 10:16-17 Philippians 2:2-5 - 20 If you have died with and have escaped from the world’s rudimentary notions, why, as though your life still belonged to the world, do you submit to such precepts as
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“Do not handle this;” “Do not taste that;” “Do not touch that other thing”—
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- 23 These rules have indeed an appearance of wisdom where self-imposed exists, and an affectation of humility and an ascetic severity. But not one of them is of any value in combating the indulgence of our lower natures.