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1我愿意你们晓得，我为你们和人，并一切没有与我亲自见面的人，是何等地尽心竭力；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要叫他们的心得安慰，因爱心互相联络，以致丰丰足足在中有充足的信心，使他们真知 神的奥秘，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所积蓄的一切智慧知识，都在他里面藏着。in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
4我说这话，免得有人用迷惑你们。I say this so that no one will deceive you by smooth rhetoric.
5我身子虽与你们相离，心却与你们同在，见你们，信基督的心也坚固，我就欢喜了。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你们既然接受了主基督耶稣，就当遵他而行，Therefore, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in Him,
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。rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
8你们要谨慎，恐怕有人用他的和虚空的妄言，不照着基督，乃照人间的遗传和就把你们掳去。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因为 神本性一切的丰盛都居住在基督里面，For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.
10你们在他里面也得了丰盛。他是各样执政掌权者的元首。And you have been made complete in Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.
11你们在他里面也受了不是人手所行的，乃是基督使你们脱去肉体情欲的割礼。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。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你们从前在过犯和未受割礼的肉体中死了， 神赦免了你们（或译：我们）一切过犯，便叫你们与基督一同活过来；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又涂抹了在律例上所写、攻击我们、有碍于我们的，把它撤去，钉在十字架上。having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!
15既将一切掳来，明显给众人看，就仗着十字架。And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
16所以，不拘在饮食上，或节期、月朔、都不可让人论断你们。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这些原是后事的影儿；那形体却是基督。These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.
18不可让人因着故意谦虚和，就夺去你们的奖赏。这等人在所见过的（有古卷：这等人窥察所没有见过的），随着自己的欲心，无故地自高自大，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。全身既然靠着他，得以相助联络，就因 神大得长进。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你们若是与基督同死，脱离了世上的小学，为什么仍像在世俗中活着、服从那“不可拿、不可尝、不可摸”等类的规条呢？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这都是照人所吩咐、所教导的。说到这一切，正用的时候就都败坏了。These will all perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings.
23这些规条使人徒有智慧之名，用私意崇拜，自表谦卑，，其实在克制肉体的情欲上是毫无功效。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.