Colossians 2

1 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,

1 我希望你们知道，为了你们和老底嘉人，以及那些从未和我见过面的人，我怎样努力奋斗，

2 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,

2 为要使你们众人心受鼓励，在爱中联结，有丰富笃定的真知灼见，可以认识上帝的奥秘。这奥秘就是基督，

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

3 祂里面蕴藏着一切智慧和知识的宝藏。

4 I say this so that no one will deceive you by smooth rhetoric.

4 我讲这番话是为了防止有人用花言巧语迷惑你们。

5 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.

5 现在，我人虽不在你们那里，心却和你们在一起，看到你们井然有序，对基督坚信不移，我很喜乐。

6 Therefore, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in Him,

6 你们既然接受了基督耶稣为主，就当继续遵从祂，

7 rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

7 按照你们所受的教导在祂里面扎根成长，信心坚固，满怀感恩。

8 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.

8 你们要谨慎，免得有人用空洞虚假的哲学把你们掳去。这些哲学不是出于基督，而是出于人的传统和世界的基本规条。

9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.

9 因为上帝的本质全部有形有体地蕴含在基督里，

10 And you have been made complete in Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.

10 你们在基督里得到了丰盛的生命。祂是一切执政者和掌权者的元首。

11 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.

11 你们也在基督里受了非人手所行的割礼，是基督为除掉你们罪恶本性而行的割礼。

12 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.

12 你们接受洗礼时已经与基督一同埋葬了，并借着相信上帝使基督从死里复活的大能，与基督一同复活了。

13 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,

13 你们从前死在过犯和未被割除的本性中，但现在上帝却使你们与基督一同活了过来。上帝赦免了我们一切的过犯，

14 having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!

14 撤销了指控我们违背律法的罪状，把它钉在十字架上，将它消除。

15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

15 祂扫除了灵界的诸多权势，用十字架上的胜利公开羞辱它们。

16 Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.

16 所以，不可让人在饮食、节期、朔日 或安息日的事上论断你们。

17 These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.

17 这些都不过是将来之事的影子，实体就是基督。

18 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.

18 有些人喜欢故作谦卑，敬拜天使，沉迷于所看见的幻象，你们不要因他们而失去得奖赏的资格。他们随从自己堕落的思想无故自高自大，

19 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.

19 没有与身体的头基督联结。其实，全身靠关节和筋络维系，从基督得到供应，按上帝的旨意渐渐成长。

20 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:

20 你们既然和基督一同死了，摆脱了世界的基本规条，为什么仍像活在世俗中，

21 “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”?

21 服从“不可拿、不可尝、不可摸”等规条呢？

22 These will all perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings.

22 这些规条不过是人的戒律和说教，经不起应用，

23 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.

23 看似充满智慧，其实只不过是自创宗教、自表谦卑、苦待己身，对于克制邪情私欲毫无用处。