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1我願意你們曉得，我為你們和人，並一切沒有與我親自見面的人，是何等地盡心竭力；For I want you to know how much I am struggling for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not met me face to face,
2要叫他們的心得安慰，因愛心互相聯絡，以致豐豐足足在中有充足的信心，使他們真知 神的奧祕，就是基督；that they may be encouraged in heart, knit together in love, and filled with the full riches of complete understanding, so that they may know the mystery of God, namely Christ,
3所積蓄的一切智慧知識，都在他裡面藏著。in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
4我說這話，免得有人用迷惑你們。I say this so that no one will deceive you by smooth rhetoric.
5我身子雖與你們相離，心卻與你們同在，見你們，信基督的心也堅固，我就歡喜了。For although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I delight to see your orderly condition and firm faith in Christ.
6你們既然接受了主基督耶穌，就當遵他而行，Therefore, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in Him,
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。rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
8你們要謹慎，恐怕有人用他的和虛空的妄言，不照著基督，乃照人間的遺傳和就把你們擄去。See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.
9因為 神本性一切的豐盛都居住在基督裡面，For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.
10你們在他裡面也得了豐盛。他是各樣執政掌權者的元首。And you have been made complete in Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.
11你們在他裡面也受了不是人手所行的，乃是基督使你們脫去肉體情慾的割禮。In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands.
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。And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.
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（或譯：我們）一切過犯，便叫你們與基督一同活過來；When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,
14又塗抹了在律例上所寫、攻擊我們、有礙於我們的，把它撤去，釘在十字架上。having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!
15既將一切擄來，明顯給眾人看，就仗著十字架。And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
16所以，不拘在飲食上，或節期、月朔、都不可讓人論斷你們。Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.
17這些原是後事的影兒；那形體卻是基督。These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.
18不可讓人因著故意謙虛和，就奪去你們的獎賞。這等人在所見過的（有古卷：這等人窺察所沒有見過的），隨著自己的慾心，無故地自高自大，Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up without basis by his unspiritual mind.
19不持定元首。全身既然靠著他，得以相助聯絡，就因 神大得長進。He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.
20–21你們若是與基督同死，脫離了世上的小學，為甚麼仍像在世俗中活著、服從那「不可拿、不可嘗、不可摸」等類的規條呢？If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations: “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”?
22這都是照人所吩咐、所教導的。說到這一切，正用的時候就都敗壞了。These will all perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings.
23這些規條使人徒有智慧之名，用私意崇拜，自表謙卑，，其實在克制肉體的情慾上是毫無功效。Such restrictions indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-prescribed worship, their false humility, and their harsh treatment of the body; but they are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.