But I want you to know what a struggle I have for you, and for those in Laodikeia, and for the rest who have not seen my face in the flesh,

that their hearts may be comforted, and they may be drawn near in love to all the riches of assurance, and to the understanding of the knowledge of the mystery of Elohim the Father and of the Mashiyach,

in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and of knowledge.

But this I say, so that no one may mislead you with the persuasiveness of words.

For though I am separated from you in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, and I rejoice that I see your order and the firmness of your faith that is in the Mashiyach.

As therefore you have received Y'shua the Mashiyach our Master, walk in him,

as your roots are strengthened and you are built up in him, and you are established in the faith that you learned, that in it you may abound in thanksgiving.

Beware lest anyone plunder you through philosophy and empty deception, according to the teaching of the children of men and according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to the Mashiyach,

in whom dwells all the fullness of the Divinity bodily.

And in him you also are made complete, for he is the head of all principalities and authorities.

And in him you were circumcised with a circumcision not done by hands, by putting off the flesh of sins, by the circumcision of the Mashiyach.

And you were buried with him in immersion, and in him you rose with him, because you believed in the power of Elohim who raised him from among the dead.

And you who were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has given you life with him, and he has forgiven us all our sins:

and by his commandments he blotted out the handwriting of our debts which handwriting was against us, and took it from the midst and fixed it to his cross.

And by stripping his body he exposed the principalities and the authorities, and put them to shame openly in his own person.

So let no one judge you in food and in drink, or in the portion of a feast and of a new moon and of Sabbaths,

which are a shadow of the things that are to come; but the body is the Mashiyach.

And let no one desire, by humility of mind, to condemn you so that you subject yourselves to the service of messengers, while he pries into what he has not seen and is vainly puffed up in the mind of his flesh,

and does not hold the head, from which the whole body is framed and constructed with joints and members, and grows with the growth given of Elohim.

For if you have died with the Mashiyach from the rudiments of the world, why as if you are living in the world are you judged?

Do not touch, and do not taste, and do not handle:

which are for corruption in the using; and they are commandments and teachings of men.

And they appear to have in them a word of wisdom in a show of humility and of the fear of Elohim and of not sparing the body; not in anything of value, but in things that serve the flesh.