「……你們在他裡面也得了豐盛……」（10節）

經文
歌羅西書二1-15

1我願意你們曉得，我為你們和老底嘉人，並一切沒有與我親自見面的人，是何等的盡心竭力；

2要叫他們的心得安慰，因愛心互相聯絡，以致豐豐足足在悟性中有充足的信心，使他們真知神的奧祕，就是基督；

3所積蓄的一切智慧知識，都在他裡面藏著。

4我說這話，免得有人用花言巧語迷惑你們。

5我身子雖與你們相離，心卻與你們同在，見你們循規蹈矩，信基督的心也堅固，我就歡喜了。

6你們既然接受了主基督耶穌，就當遵他而行，

7在他裡面生根建造，信心堅固，正如你們所領的教訓，感謝的心也更增長了。

8你們要謹慎，恐怕有人用他的理學和虛空的妄言，不照著基督，乃照人間的遺傳和世上的小學就把你們擄去。

9因為神本性一切的豐盛都有形有體的居住在基督裡面，

10你們在他裡面也得了豐盛。他是各樣執政掌權者的元首。

11你們在他裡面也受了不是人手所行的割禮，乃是基督使你們脫去肉體情慾的割禮。

12你們既受洗與他一同埋葬，也就在此與他一同復活，都因信那叫他從死裡復活神的功用。

13你們從前在過犯和未受割禮的肉體中死了，神赦免了你們（或作：我們）一切過犯，便叫你們與基督一同活過來；

14又塗抹了在律例上所寫攻擊我們，有礙於我們的字據，把他撤去，釘在十字架上。

15既將一切執政的、掌權的擄來，明顯給眾人看，就仗著十字架誇勝。

"...and you have been given fulness in Christ..." (v.10)

Bible reading:
Colossians 2:1-15

1 I want you to know how hard I am contending for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not met me personally.

2 My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ,

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

4 I tell you this so that no one may deceive you by fine-sounding arguments.

5 For though I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit and delight to see how disciplined you are and how firm your faith in Christ is. Spiritual Fullness in Christ

6 So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him,

7 rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

8 See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces[a] of this world rather than on Christ.

9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,

10 and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority.

11 In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh[b] was put off when you were circumcised by[c] Christ,

12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

13 When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you[d] alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,

14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.

15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.[e]