Colossians 2:6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
Colossians 2:6 NLT
And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him.
Colossians 2:10 NLT
So you also are complete through your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.
Colossians 2:11 NLT
When you came to Christ, you were “circumcised,” but not by a physical procedure. Christ performed a spiritual circumcision—the cutting away of your sinful nature.
Colossians 2:13 NLT
You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins.
Colossians 2:14 NLT
He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross.
Colossians 2:15 NLT
In this way, he disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross.
Colossians 2:16 NLT
So don’t let anyone condemn you for what you eat or drink, or for not celebrating certain holy days or new moon ceremonies or Sabbaths.
Colossians 2:17 NLT
For these rules are only shadows of the reality yet to come. And Christ himself is that reality.
Colossians 2:19 NLT
and they are not connected to Christ, the head of the body. For he holds the whole body together with its joints and ligaments, and it grows as God nourishes it.
Colossians 2:20 NLT
You have died with Christ, and he has set you free from the spiritual powers of this world. So why do you keep on following the rules of the world, such as
Colossians 2:22 NLT
Such rules are mere human teachings about things that deteriorate as we use them.