2Let me tell you how hard I have worked for you and for the people in Laodicea and for all others who do not know me personally. ²I do this in order that they may be filled with courage and may be drawn together in love, and so have the full wealth of assurance which true understanding brings. In this way they will know God’s secret, which is Christ himself.^d ³He is the key that opens all the hidden treasures of God’s wisdom and knowledge.

⁴I tell you, then, do not let anyone deceive you with false arguments, no matter how good they seem to be. ⁵For even though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, and I am glad as I see the resolute firmness with which you stand together in your faith in Christ.

Fullness of Life in Christ

⁶Since you have accepted Christ Jesus as Lord, live in union with him. ⁷Keep your roots deep in him, build your lives on him, and become stronger in your faith, as you were taught. And be filled with thanksgiving.

⁸See to it, then, that no one enslaves you by means of the worthless deceit of human wisdom, which comes from the teachings handed down by human beings and from the ruling spirits of the universe, and not from Christ. ⁹For the full content of divine nature lives in Christ, in his humanity, ¹⁰and you have been given full life in union with him. He is supreme over every spiritual ruler and authority.

Read in Logos

Colossians 2:10: … and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.

Footnotes

dGod’s secret, which is Christ himself; some manuscripts have God’s secret; others have the secret of God the Father of Christ; others have the secret of the God and Father, and of Christ.