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Col 2:2. Father, I ask that You will cause my heart and the heart of all saints to be encouraged, and to be knit together in love, and to attain to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ.

Col 2:3. In Christ are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, and because Christ dwells in me, and I in Him, all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge dwell in Me; also because the Holy Spirit guides me into all Truth (John 16:13), I discover all God’s treasures dwelling in me, I receive them and I profit with them.

Col 2:4. Because I am filled with the wisdom and knowledge of God, nobody – human or spirit, visible or invisible – can deceive me, even when they come with persuasive or enticing words. I operate in the fullness of the gift of the discerning of spirits in the name of Jesus.

Col 2:5. Though I may be absent from a place physically in the flesh, yet I am able to be there in the spirit, because I am filled with all the fulness of God (Ephesians 3:19), I am led by the Spirit of God (Romans 8:14), and I am born of the Spirit of God (John 3:8).

Col 2:6. As I therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so I walk in Him.

Col 2:7. I remain rooted and built up in Him and I am continually established in the faith, as I have been taught, and I abound in this faith with thanksgiving.

Col 2:8. I will beware and I will not be cheated through philosophy or vain deceit, I will not be cheated through the traditions of men, and I will not be cheated through the basic principles of the world. But I live according to Christ.

Col 2:9. For in Christ dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, and because as Christ is, so am I in this world (1 John 4:17), therefore all the fullness of the Godhead dwells in me bodily. 

Col 2:10. And I am complete in Christ Jesus, who is the Head of all principality and power.

Col 2:11. In Christ I was also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ.

Col 2:12. I was buried with Christ in baptism, in which I also was raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.

Col 2:13. And I, being dead in my trespasses and in the uncircumcision of my flesh, God has made alive with Christ Jesus, having forgiven me all trespasses,

Col 2:14. having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against me, which was contrary to me. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

Col 2:15. Christ, having disarmed principalities and powers, made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in the cross. Therefore I have triumphed over all principalities and powers through Christ.

Col 2:16. I will let no one judge me in food or in drink, or regarding a festival, or a new moon or sabbaths,

Col 2:17. for they are a shadow of things to come but the substance is of Christ. Therefore, because I dwell, reside and abide in Christ and Christ dwells, resides and abides in me (John 15:4,7), I carry the substance of things to come and I walk in the power of the age to come (   ).

Col 2:18. I will let no one cheat me of my reward. I take no delight in false humility and worship of angels, and I intrude not into those things which I have not seen. I am not vainly puffed up. I do not possess a fleshly mind, instead, I possess a sound and renewed mind (2 Tim. 1:7, Romans 12:2).

Col 2:19. I hold fast to Christ which is my Head and the Head of the Church, and from Him all of us are nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, and we grow with the increase of God.

Col 2:20. Therefore, because I died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, I will not subject myself to regulations as though I were living in the world, (according to the commandments and doctrines of men) –

Col 2:21. things like “Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle” 

Col 2:22. because they all concern things which perish with using. 

Col 2:23. These things have an appearance of wisdom and include false worship, false humility and the neglect of the body, but they do not have any honour in the satisfying of the flesh. Therefore, I will not subject myself to man-made regulations, commandments and doctrines because even though I am in the world, I am not of the world (John 17:14, 16; John 15:19).