Colossians 2
1 For it is my desire to give you news of the great fight I am making for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not seen my face in the flesh;
我想让你们知道我是多么的努力工作，为了你们、为了老底嘉的人们，事实上还为那些不曾见过面的人们。
2 So that their hearts may be comforted, and that being joined together in love, they may come to the full wealth of the certain knowledge of the secret of God, even Christ,
我的努力是为了让你们能够受到鼓舞，让你们在爱中彼此联系，可以凭借领悟而感到完全的确信，以此获得巨大的益处，因为这才是上帝带来的真正知识。希望你们知道，上帝显化的奥秘，那就是耶稣！
3 In whom are all the secret stores of wisdom and knowledge.
通过耶稣，你们可以发现一切智慧和知识。
4 I say this so that you may not be turned away by any deceit of words.
我说这些话，免得有人用花言巧语欺骗你们。
5 For though I am not present in the flesh, still I am with you in the spirit, seeing with joy your order, and your unchanging faith in Christ.
我的身体虽然没有和你们在一起，灵却与你们同在。很高兴看见团结在一起，坚定地信基督。
6 As, then, you took Christ Jesus the Lord, so go on in him,
一如你们如何接受基督耶稣为主，就按照这种方式追随他，
7 Rooted and based together in him, strong in the faith which the teaching gave you, giving praise to God at all times.
以他为根基，以他进行修建。希望你们对他的信能继续变得更强壮，遵循一直向你们教导的，对上帝充满感激。
8 Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:
要小心，不要哪些不遵循基督、而是按照人的传统和世俗言论，皆有其哲学和骗人的空谈，奴役你们。
9 For in him all the wealth of God's being has a living form,
因为上帝神圣本性，以基督身体的形式完整存在，
10 And you are complete in him, who is the head of all rule and authority:
你们也因他而完整。他远远高于所有执政掌权者。
11 In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;
通过它，你们接受了“割礼”，但并非由人手进行，而是通过基督提供的割礼，从人类罪的天性中获得自由。
12 Having been put to death with him in baptism, by which you came to life again with him, through faith in the working of God, who made him come back from the dead.
你们在洗礼中已与他埋葬在一起，也因信上帝将基督从死人中复活的行为，与耶稣一同复活了。
13 And you, being dead through your sins and the evil condition of your flesh, to you, I say, he gave life together with him, and forgiveness of all our sins;
尽管你们因罪和肉体未受割礼而死亡，但上帝让你们与基督一起复活，上帝赦免了我们的一切罪。
14 Having put an end to the handwriting of the law which was against us, taking it out of the way by nailing it to his cross;
他根据那用于反对我们的律法，抹去了我们的债；他把这障碍钉在十字架上，以此将其移除。
15 Having made himself free from the rule of authorities and powers, he put them openly to shame, glorying over them in it.
他废除了精神统治者和掌权者的权利，将他们的真正的样子公开显示，用胜利彻底征服他们。
16 For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths:
所以不要让任何人因你们所选择遵循的饮食、宗教节日、新的拜月仪式或安息日庆祝，而批评你们。
17 For these are an image of the things which are to come; but the body is Christ's.
这些不过是即将到来之事的影子，因为那真正的现实就是基督。
18 Let no man take your reward from you by consciously making little of himself and giving worship to angels; having his thoughts fixed on the things which he has seen, being foolishly lifted up in his natural mind,
不要让人通过欺骗夺去你们的奖赏，他们坚持让你们故作谦卑或敬拜天使。他们说自己曾看到过异像，所以就认为自己好于任何人，他们的有罪思想也变得如此自负，令人可笑。
19 And not joined to the Head, from whom all the body, being given strength and kept together through its joins and bands, has its growth with the increase of God.
这样的人并没有与自己的头连接，没有用头指导身体，没有通过身体的关节和筋络获得滋养，连接在一起。因为身体是连接在一起的，按照上帝希望它成长的方式成长。
20 If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders
你们若与基督一同死去，摆脱世俗强加给你们的宗教要求，为什么好像仍然是这个世界的一部分，仍然要受这些要求的摆布，
21 Which say there may be no touching, tasting, or taking in your hands,
比如“不可拿、不可尝、不可触”的要求？
22 (Rules which are all to come to an end with their use) after the orders and teaching of men?
这些要求所指，是一经使用就会坏掉的东西。这些规条是照着人的要求和教训而定。
23 These things seem to have a sort of wisdom in self-ordered worship and making little of oneself, and being cruel to the body, not honouring it by giving it its natural use.
对于那些以自我为中心敬拜之人、故作谦卑之人和“苦修身体”之人，这些规则似乎合情合理。但事实上，它们在应对所有罪恶欲望方面，没有任何帮助。
