Colossians 2 - UPDV Updated Bible Version

^2:1 For I would have you⁺ know how greatly I strive for you⁺, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
^2:2 that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, [even] Christ,
^2:3 in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.
^2:4 This I say, that no one may delude you⁺ with persuasiveness of speech.
^2:5 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you⁺ in the spirit, joying and seeing your⁺ order, and the steadfastness of your⁺ faith in Christ.
^2:6 As therefore you⁺ received Christ Jesus the Lord, [so] walk in him,
^2:7 rooted and built up in him, and established in your⁺ faith, even as you⁺ were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
^2:8 Take heed lest there will be anyone who makes spoil of you⁺ through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ:
^2:9 for in him dwells all the fullness of Deity bodily,
^2:10 and in him you⁺ are made full, who is the head of all principality and power:
^2:11 in whom you⁺ were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;
^2:12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you⁺ were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
^2:13 And you⁺, being dead in your⁺ trespasses and the uncircumcision of your⁺ flesh, you⁺, he made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses;
^2:14 having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he has taken it out from between [him and us], nailing it to the cross;
^2:15 having despoiled the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
^2:16 Let no man therefore judge you⁺ in meat and in drink, or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day:
^2:17 which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's.
^2:18 Let no man rob you⁺ of your⁺ prize by a voluntary humility and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has seen, puffed up for nothing by his fleshly mind,
^2:19 and not holding fast the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, increases with the increase of God.
^2:20 If you⁺ died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you⁺ subject yourselves to ordinances,
^2:21 Don't handle, nor taste, nor touch
^2:22 (all which things are to perish with the using), after the precepts and doctrines of men?
^2:23 Which things indeed have a show of wisdom in do-it-yourself religion, and humility, and severity to the body; [but are] not of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

Colossians, Chapter 2