1 P ois quero que saibais quão grande luta tenho por vós, e pelos que estão em Laodicéia, e por quantos não viram a minha pessoa;

For I want you to know how great is my solicitude for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who '> like yourselves] have never seen my face and known me personally.

2 p ara que os seus corações sejam animados, estando unidos em amor, e enriquecidos da plenitude do entendimento para o pleno conhecimento do mistério de Deus - Cristo,

that their hearts may be braced (comforted, cheered, and encouraged) as they are knit together in love, that they may come to have all the abounding wealth and blessings of assured conviction of understanding, and that they may become progressively more intimately acquainted with and may know more definitely and accurately and thoroughly that mystic secret of God, Christ (the Anointed One).

3 n o qual estão escondidos todos os tesouros da sabedoria e da ciência.

In Him all the treasures of wisdom ( comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God) and knowledge and enlightenment are stored up and lie hidden.

4 D igo isto, para que ninguém vos engane com palavras persuasivas.

I say this in order that no one may mislead and delude you by plausible and persuasive and attractive arguments and beguiling speech.

5 P orque ainda que eu esteja ausente quanto ao corpo, contudo em espírito estou convosco, regozijando-me, e vendo a vossa ordem e a firmeza da vossa fé em Cristo.

For though I am away from you in body, yet I am with you in spirit, delighted at the sight of your orderly array and the firmness and the solid front and steadfastness of your faith in Christ '> leaning of the entire human personality on Him in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness].

6 P ortanto, assim como recebestes a Cristo Jesus, o Senhor, assim também nele andai,

As you have therefore received Christ, Jesus the Lord, walk (regulate your lives and conduct yourselves) in union with and conformity to Him.

7 a rraigados e edificados nele, e confirmados na fé, assim como fostes ensinados, abundando em ação de graças.

Have the roots firmly and deeply planted, being continually built up in Him, becoming increasingly more confirmed and established in the faith, just as you were taught, and abounding and overflowing in it with thanksgiving.

8 T endo cuidado para que ninguém vos faça presa sua, por meio de filosofias e vãs sutilezas, segundo a tradição dos homens, segundo os rudimentos do mundo, e não segundo Cristo;

See to it that no one carries you off as spoil or makes you yourselves captive by his so-called philosophy and intellectualism and vain deceit (idle fancies and plain nonsense), following human tradition (men’s ideas of the material rather than the spiritual world), just crude notions following the rudimentary and elemental teachings of the universe and disregarding Christ (the Messiah).

9 p orque nele habita corporalmente toda a plenitude da divindade,

For in Him the whole fullness of Deity (the Godhead) continues to dwell in bodily form.

10 e tendes a vossa plenitude nele, que é a cabeça de todo principado e potestade,

And you are in Him, made full and having come to fullness of life. And He is the Head of all rule and authority.

11 n o qual também fostes circuncidados com a circuncisão não feita por mãos no despojar do corpo da carne, a saber, a circuncisão de Cristo;

In Him also you were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, but in a circumcision Christ by stripping off the body of the flesh (the whole corrupt, carnal nature with its passions and lusts).

12 t endo sido sepultados com ele no batismo, no qual também fostes ressuscitados pela fé no poder de Deus, que o ressuscitou dentre os mortos;

'> you were circumcised when] you were buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised with Him '> to a new life] through faith in the working of God '> as displayed] when He raised Him up from the dead.

13 e a vós, quando estáveis mortos nos vossos delitos e na incircuncisão da vossa carne, vos vivificou juntamente com ele, perdoando-nos todos os delitos;

And you who were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh (your sensuality, your sinful carnal nature), brought to life together with, having forgiven us all our transgressions,

14 e havendo riscado o escrito de dívida que havia contra nós nas suas ordenanças, o qual nos era contrário, removeu-o do meio de nós, cravando-o na cruz;

Having cancelled and blotted out and wiped away the handwriting of the note (bond) with its legal decrees and demands which was in force and stood against us (hostile to us). This He set aside and cleared completely out of our way by nailing it to cross.

15 e , tendo despojado os principados e potestades, os exibiu publicamente e deles triunfou na mesma cruz.

disarmed the principalities and powers that were ranged against us and made a bold display and public example of them, in triumphing over them in Him and in it.

16 N inguém, pois, vos julgue pelo comer, ou pelo beber, ou por causa de dias de festa, ou de lua nova, ou de sábados,

Therefore let no one sit in judgment on you in matters of food and drink, or with regard to a feast day or a New Moon or a Sabbath.

17 q ue são sombras das coisas vindouras; mas o corpo é de Cristo.

Such are only the shadow of things that are to come, and they have only a symbolic value. But the reality (the substance, the solid fact of what is foreshadowed, the body of it) belongs to Christ.

18 N inguém atue como árbitro contra vós, afetando humildade ou culto aos anjos, firmando-se em coisas que tenha visto, inchado vãmente pelo seu entendimento carnal,

Let no one defraud you by acting as an umpire and declaring you unworthy and disqualifying you for the prize, insisting on self-abasement and worship of angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, vainly puffed up by his sensuous notions and inflated by his unspiritual thoughts and fleshly conceit,

19 e não retendo a Cabeça, da qual todo o corpo, provido e organizado pelas juntas e ligaduras, vai crescendo com o aumento concedido por Deus.

And not holding fast to the Head, from Whom the entire body, supplied and knit together by means of its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.

20 S e morrestes com Cristo quanto aos rudimentos do mundo, por que vos sujeitais ainda a ordenanças, como se vivêsseis no mundo,

If then you have died with Christ to material ways of looking at things and have escaped from the world’s crude and elemental notions and teachings of externalism, why do you live as if you still belong to the world?

21 t ais como: não toques, não proves, não manuseies

Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not even touch,

22 ( as quais coisas todas hão de perecer pelo uso), segundo os preceitos e doutrinas dos homens?

Referring to things all of which perish with being used. To do this is to follow human precepts and doctrines.

23 A s quais têm, na verdade, alguma aparência de sabedoria em culto voluntário, humildade fingida, e severidade para com o corpo, mas não têm valor algum no combate contra a satisfação da carne.

Such have indeed the outward appearance for wisdom, in promoting self-imposed rigor of devotion and delight in self-humiliation and severity of discipline of the body, but they are of no value in checking the indulgence of the flesh (the lower nature).