1For 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;

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Colossians 1:29, Colossians 1:29, Philippians 1:30, Philippians 1:30, Colossians 4:12

2that 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, which is Christ,

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Colossians 1:27, Colossians 1:27, Colossians 4:8, Colossians 4:8, Ephesians 6:22

3in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.

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1 Corinthians 1:24, 1 Corinthians 1:24, 1 Corinthians 1:30, 1 Corinthians 1:30, Romans 11:33

4Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

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1 John 4:1, 1 John 4:1, Ephesians 4:14, Ephesians 4:14, Matthew 24:4

5For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

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1 Corinthians 5:3, 1 Corinthians 5:4, 1 Corinthians 5:3, 1 Corinthians 5:4, 1 Thessalonians 2:17

6As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

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Colossians 1:10, Colossians 1:10, 1 John 2:6, 1 John 2:6, 1 Thessalonians 4:1

7rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

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Ephesians 3:17, Ephesians 3:17, Jeremiah 17:8, Jeremiah 17:8, Ephesians 2:20

8Be careful that you do not let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

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1 Timothy 6:20, 1 Timothy 6:20, Ephesians 5:6, Ephesians 5:6, Matthew 7:15

9For in him all the fullness of God's nature dwells bodily,

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Colossians 1:19, Colossians 1:19, John 1:14, John 1:14, John 10:30

10and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;

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Ephesians 3:19, Ephesians 3:19, Colossians 1:16, Colossians 1:18, Colossians 1:16

11in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

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Romans 2:29, Romans 2:29, Philippians 3:3, Philippians 3:3, Romans 6:6

12having 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.

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Romans 6:3, Romans 6:5, Romans 6:3, Romans 6:5, 1 Peter 3:21

13You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

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Ephesians 2:5, Ephesians 2:6, Ephesians 2:5, Ephesians 2:6, Ephesians 2:1

14wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

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Isaiah 44:22, Ephesians 2:14, Ephesians 2:16, Isaiah 44:22, Ephesians 2:14

15having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

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Hebrews 2:14, Hebrews 2:14, Ephesians 4:8, Ephesians 4:8, Matthew 12:29

16Let no man therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

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Romans 14:5, Romans 14:6, Romans 14:5, Romans 14:6, Romans 14:10

17which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's.

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Hebrews 10:1, Hebrews 10:1, Hebrews 8:5, Hebrews 8:5, John 1:17

18Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

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Colossians 2:8, Colossians 2:8, 1 John 4:1, 1 John 4:2, 1 John 4:1

19and 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.

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Ephesians 4:15, Ephesians 4:16, Ephesians 4:15, Ephesians 4:16, John 15:4

20If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

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Colossians 2:8, Colossians 2:8, Galatians 4:3, Colossians 2:16, Galatians 4:3

21"Do not handle, nor taste, nor touch"

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1 Timothy 4:3, 1 Timothy 4:3, Isaiah 52:11, Genesis 3:3, Isaiah 52:11

22(all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?

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Isaiah 29:13, Isaiah 29:13, Mark 7:18, Mark 7:19, Titus 1:14

23Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but are not of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

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1 Timothy 4:8, 1 Timothy 4:8, Colossians 2:18, Colossians 2:8, Colossians 2:18