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7 arooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding1 in it with thanksgiving.  
8 Beware lest anyone1 cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to athe tradition of men, according to the bbasic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.  
9 For ain Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead1 bodily;  
10 and you are complete in Him, who is the ahead of all principality and power.  

Not Legalism but Christ

11 In Him you were also acircumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by bputting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,  
12 aburied with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through bfaith in the working of God, cwho raised Him from the dead.  
13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,
14 ahaving wiped out the1 handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.  
15 aHaving disarmed bprincipalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.  
16 So let no one ajudge you in food or in drink, or regarding a1 festival or a new moon or sabbaths,  
17 awhich are a shadow of things to come, but the1 substance is of Christ.  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Colossians 2:9

For—"Because." Their "philosophy" (Colossians 2:8) is not "after Christ," as all true philosophy is, everything which comes not from, and tends not to, Him, being a delusion; "For in Him (alone) dwelleth" as in a temple, etc.

the fulness— (Colossians 1:19; John 14:10).

of the Godhead—The Greek (theotes) means the ESSENCE and NATURE of the Godhead, not merely the divine perfections and attributes of Divinity (Greek, "theiotes"). He, as man, was not merely God-like, but in the fullest sense, God.

bodily—not merely as before His incarnation, but now "bodily in Him" as the incarnate word (John 1:14, John 1:18). Believers, by union with Him, partake of His fulness of the divine nature (John 1:16; II Peter 1:4; see on Ephesians 3:19).




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