¹我愿意你们知道，我为你们和在老底嘉的人，以及所有没有跟我见过面的人，是怎样竭力奋斗，

¹For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,

²为的是要他们的心得着勉励，在爱中彼此联系，可以得着凭悟性、因确信而来的一切丰盛，也可以充分认识　神的奥秘，这奥秘就是基督；

²that their hearts may be comforted, being united in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, to the full knowledge of the secret of the God and Father, and of the Christ,

³一切智慧和知识的宝库都蕴藏在基督里面。

³in whom are all the treasures of the wisdom and the knowledge hid,

⁴我说这些话，免得有人用花言巧语欺骗你们。

⁴and this I say, that no one may beguile you in enticing words,

⁵我虽然不在你们那里，心却与你们同在。我看见你们循规蹈矩，并且对基督有坚定的信心，就欢喜了。

⁵for if even in the flesh I am absent — yet in the spirit I am with you, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in regard to Christ;

⁶在基督里得丰盛你们怎样接受了基督耶稣为主，就当照样在他里面行事为人，

⁶as, then, ye did receive Christ Jesus the Lord, in him walk ye,

⁷按着你们所学到的，在他里面扎根、建造，信心坚定，满有感谢的心。

⁷being rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye were taught — abounding in it in thanksgiving.

⁸你们要谨慎，免得有人不照着基督，而照着人的传统，和世俗的言论，借着哲学和骗人的空谈，把你们掳去。

⁸See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

⁹因为　神本性的一切丰盛，都有形有体地住在基督里面，

⁹because in him doth tabernacle all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,

¹⁰你们也是在他里面得了丰盛。他是一切执政掌权者的元首。

¹⁰and ye are in him made full, who is the head of all principality and authority,

¹¹你们也在他里面受了不是由人手所行的割礼，而是受了基督的割礼，就是除掉你们的罪身。

¹¹in whom also ye were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh in the circumcision of the Christ,

¹²你们在洗礼中已经与他一同埋葬，也在洗礼中，因信那使基督从死人中复活的　神所运行的动力，与他一同复活了。

¹²being buried with him in the baptism, in which also ye rose with [him] through the faith of the working of God, who did raise him out of the dead.

¹³你们因着过犯和肉体未受割礼，原是死的，然而　神赦免了我们的一切过犯，使你们与基督一同活过来，

¹³And you — being dead in the trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh — He made alive together with him, having forgiven you all the trespasses,

¹⁴涂抹了那写在规条上反对我们、与我们为敌的字句，并且把这字句从我们中间拿去，钉在十字架上。

¹⁴having blotted out the handwriting in the ordinances that is against us, that was contrary to us, and he hath taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;

¹⁵他既然靠着十字架胜过了一切执政掌权的，废除了他们的权势，就在凯旋的行列中，把他们公开示众。

¹⁵having stripped the principalities and the authorities, he made a shew of them openly — having triumphed over them in it.

¹⁶所以不要让人因着饮食、节期、月朔、安息日批评你们，

¹⁶Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,

¹⁷这些不过是将来的事的影子，那真体却是属于基督的。

¹⁷which are a shadow of the coming things, and the body [is] of the Christ;

¹⁸不要让人夺去你们的奖赏，他们以故意谦卑，敬拜天使为乐；迷于自己所见过的；凭着肉体的意念，无故地自高自大；

¹⁸let no one beguile you of your prize, delighting in humble-mindedness and [in] worship of the messengers, intruding into the things he hath not seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

¹⁹不与头紧密相连。其实全身都是借着关节和筋络从头得着供应和联系，就照着　神所要求的，生长起来。

¹⁹and not holding the head, from which all the body — through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit together — may increase with the increase of God.

²⁰在基督里作新人你们若与基督一同死了，脱离了世俗的言论，为什么仍然好像活在世俗中一样，

²⁰If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?

²¹拘守那“不可摸、不可尝、不可触”的规条呢？

²¹— thou mayest not touch, nor taste, nor handle —

²²（这一切东西，一经使用，就都朽坏了。）这些规条是照着人的命令和教训而定的，

²²which are all for destruction with the using, after the commands and teachings of men,

²³在随着己意敬拜，故作谦卑，和苦待己身等事上，似乎是智慧之言，其实只能叫人放纵肉体，再没有任何价值。

²³which are, indeed, having a matter of wisdom in will-worship, and humble-mindedness, and neglecting of body — not in any honour, unto a satisfying of the flesh.