Colossians 2:9
7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
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Compare
- BSB
- For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.
- KJV
- For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
- WEB
- For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily,
- ASV
- for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,
- DARBY
- For in him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily;
- BLB
- because in Him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily.
- ÅB
- For i ham bor hele guddommens fylde legemlig,
- OTB
- For i Ham bor hele guddommens fylde i kroppslig form,
- B1930
- For i ham bor hele guddommens fylde legemlig,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Colossians 1:19
For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
Read in contextJohn 1:14
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Read in contextJohn 10:30
I and my Father are one.
Read in context1 Timothy 3:16
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
Read in contextJohn 14:9–10
Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
Read in contextJohn 10:38
But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
Read in context1 John 5:20
And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Read in contextJohn 14:20
At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
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