Thematic Bible
Colossians 2:1 (show verse)
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;
Colossians 2:2 (show verse)
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, namely, Christ,
Colossians 2:3 (show verse)
in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.
Colossians 2:4 (show verse)
Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.
Colossians 2:5 (show verse)
For 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.
Colossians 2:6 (show verse)
As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,
Colossians 2:7 (show verse)
rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
Colossians 2:8 (show verse)
Be 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.
Colossians 2:9 (show verse)
For in him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form,
Colossians 2:10 (show verse)
and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;
Colossians 2:11 (show verse)
in 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;
Colossians 2:12 (show verse)
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.
Colossians 2:13 (show verse)
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,
Colossians 2:14 (show verse)
wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;
Colossians 2:15 (show verse)
having disarmed the rulers and authorities, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Colossians 2:16 (show verse)
Let 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,
Colossians 2:17 (show verse)
which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's.
Colossians 2:18 (show verse)
Let 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,
Colossians 2:19 (show verse)
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.
Colossians 2:20 (show verse)
If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
Colossians 2:21 (show verse)
"Do not handle, nor taste, nor touch"
Colossians 2:22 (show verse)
(all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?
Colossians 2:23 (show verse)
Which 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.