经文
歌罗西书二1-15

1我愿意你们晓得，我为你们和老底嘉人，并一切没有与我亲自见面的人，是何等的尽心竭力；

2要叫他们的心得安慰，因爱心互相联络，以致丰丰足足在悟性中有充足的信心，使他们真知神的奥秘，就是基督；

3所积蓄的一切智慧知识，都在他里面藏着。

4我说这话，免得有人用花言巧语迷惑你们。

5我身子虽与你们相离，心却与你们同在，见你们循规蹈矩，信基督的心也坚固，我就欢喜了。

6你们既然接受了主基督耶稣，就当遵他而行，

7在他里面生根建造，信心坚固，正如你们所领的教训，感谢的心也更增长了。

8你们要谨慎，恐怕有人用他的理学和虚空的妄言，不照着基督，乃照人间的遗传和世上的小学就把你们掳去。

9因为神本性一切的丰盛都有形有体的居住在基督里面，

10你们在他里面也得了丰盛。他是各样执政掌权者的元首。

11你们在他里面也受了不是人手所行的割礼，乃是基督使你们脱去肉体情欲的割礼。

12你们既受洗与他一同埋葬，也就在此与他一同复活，都因信那叫他从死里复活神的功用。

13你们从前在过犯和未受割礼的肉体中死了，神赦免了你们（或作：我们）一切过犯，便叫你们与基督一同活过来；

14又涂抹了在律例上所写攻击我们，有碍于我们的字据，把他撤去，钉在十字架上。

15既将一切执政的、掌权的掳来，明显给众人看，就仗着十字架夸胜。

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.

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]