Mount Olive Evangelical Free Church

Colossians 2 1For I want you to knowhow great astruggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face,2thattheir hearts may be encouraged, beingknit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge ofGods mystery, which is Christ,3in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.4I say this in orderthat no one may delude you with plausible arguments.5Forthough I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see yourgood order andthe firmness of your faith in Christ. Alive in Christ 6Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,7rooted andbuilt up in him andestablished in the faith, justas you were taught, aboundingin thanksgiving. 8See to it that no one takes you captive byphilosophy andempty deceit, according tohuman tradition, according to theelemental spiritsof the world, and not according to Christ.9Forin him the whole fullness of deity dwellsbodily,10andyou have been f