Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty
deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of
the world, and not according to Christ. For in Him dwells all the fullness of
the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all
principality and power.
As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so
walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you
have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.
So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a
festival or a new moon or sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but
the substance is of Christ. Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight
in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he
has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, and not holding fast to the
Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and
ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God.
Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles
of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to
regulations— “Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,” which all concern
things which perish with the using—according to the commandments and doctrines
of men? These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed
religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against
the indulgence of the flesh.
We are rooted in Him, we are alive
in Him,
we are hidden in Him, and are complete in Him.
We cannot live life without
Him.
Surrounded by His love, and with
His peace
ruling in our hearts, we are equipped to make our Lord first in every
area of life.
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