Keep thinking about things above, not things on the earth,

He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves,

My goal is that their hearts, having been knit together in love, may be encouraged, and that they may have all the riches that assurance brings in their understanding of the knowledge of the mystery of God, namely, Christ,

Having been buried with him in baptism, you also have been raised with him through your faith in the power of God who raised him from the dead.

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

For in him all the fullness of deity lives in bodily form,

And to all these virtues add love, which is the perfect bond.

God wanted to make known to them the glorious riches of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for the display of all patience and steadfastness, joyfully

but now he has reconciled you by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him –

because you know that you will receive your inheritance from the Lord as the reward. Serve the Lord Christ.

Your faith and love have arisen from the hope laid up for you in heaven, which you have heard about in the message of truth, the gospel

In him you also were circumcised – not, however, with a circumcision performed by human hands, but by the removal of the fleshly body, that is, through the circumcision done by Christ.

And even though you were dead in your transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he nevertheless made you alive with him, having forgiven all your transgressions.

Let no one who delights in humility and the worship of angels pass judgment on you. That person goes on at great lengths about what he has supposedly seen, but he is puffed up with empty notions by his fleshly mind.

Even though they have the appearance of wisdom with their self-imposed worship and false humility achieved by an unsparing treatment of the body – a wisdom with no true value – they in reality result in fleshly indulgence.

So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

for all things in heaven and on earth were created by him – all things, whether visible or invisible, whether thrones or dominions, whether principalities or powers – all things were created through him and for him.

He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn from among the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things.

and through him to reconcile all things to himself by making peace through the blood of his cross – through him, whether things on earth or things in heaven.