G2532–καί–kai

For I would have you know in how severe a struggle I am engaged on behalf of you and the brethren in Laodicea and of all who have not known me personally,

καὶ kai “and”καὶ kai “and”

in order that their hearts may be cheered, they themselves being welded together in love and enjoying all the advantages of a reasonable certainty, till at last they attain the full knowledge of God's truth, which is Christ Himself.

καὶ kai “and”καὶ kai “and”καὶ kai “and”

In Him all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are stored up, hidden from view.

καὶ kai “and”

For although, as you say, I am absent from you in body, yet in spirit I am present with you and am delighted to witness your good discipline and the solid front presented by your faith in Christ.

καὶ kai “even”καὶ kai “and”καὶ kai “and”

having the roots of your being firmly planted in Him, and continually building yourselves up in Him, and always being increasingly confirmed in the faith as you were taught it, and abounding in it with thanksgiving.

καὶ kai “and”καὶ kai “and”

Take care lest there be some one who leads you away as prisoners by means of his philosophy and idle fancies, following human traditions and the world's crude notions instead of following Christ.

καὶ kai “and”καὶ kai “and”

and He is the Lord of all princes and rulers.

καὶ kai “and”καὶ kai “and”

In Him also you were circumcised with a circumcision not performed by hand, when you threw off your sinful nature in true Christian circumcision;

καὶ kai “also”

having been buried with Him in your baptism, in which you were also raised with Him through faith produced within you by God who raised Him from among the dead.

καὶ kai “also”

And to you--dead as you once were in your transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your natural state--He has nevertheless given Life with Himself, having forgiven us all our transgressions.

Καὶ Kai “And”καὶ kai “and”

The bond, with its requirements, which was in force against us and was hostile to us, He cancelled, and cleared it out of the way, nailing it to His Cross.

καὶ kai “and”

And the hostile princes and rulers He shook off from Himself, and boldly displayed them as His conquests, when by the Cross He triumphed over them.

καὶ kai “and”

Therefore suffer no one to sit in judgement on you as to eating or drinking or with regard to a festival, a new moon or a sabbath.

καὶ kai “or”

Let no one defraud you of your prize, priding himself on his humility and on his worship of the angels, and taking his stand on the visions he has seen, and idly puffed up with his unspiritual thoughts.

καὶ kai “and”

Such a one does not keep his hold upon Christ, the Head, from whom the Body, in all its parts nourished and strengthened by its points of contact and its connections, grows with a divine growth.

καὶ kai “and”καὶ kai “and”καὶ kai “and”

referring to things which are all intended to be used up and perish--in obedience to mere human injunctions and teachings?

καὶ kai “and”

These rules have indeed an appearance of wisdom where self-imposed worship exists, and an affectation of humility and an ascetic severity. But not one of them is of any value in combating the indulgence of our lower natures.

καὶ kai “and”καὶ kai “and”

For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

καὶ kai “and”

When Christ appears--He is our true Life--then you also will appear with Him in glory.

καὶ kai “also”

Therefore put to death your earthward inclinations--fornication, impurity, sensual passion, unholy desire, and all greed, for that is a form of idolatry.

καὶ kai “and”

and you also were once addicted to them, while you were living under their power.

καὶ kai “also”

But now you must rid yourselves of every kind of sin--angry and passionate outbreaks, ill-will, evil speaking, foul-mouthed abuse--so that these may never soil your lips.

καὶ kai “also”

and have clothed yourselves with the new self which is being remoulded into full knowledge so as to become like Him who created it.

καὶ kai “and”

In that new creation there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free man, but Christ is everything and is in all of us.

καὶ kai “and”καὶ kai “and”καὶ kai “and”

Clothe yourselves therefore, as God's own people holy and dearly loved, with tender-heartedness, kindness, lowliness of mind, meekness, long-suffering;

καὶ kai “and”