Joel

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Colossians 2:6-23

6 As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,
7 rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith,
as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.
8 Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit,
according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles
of the world, and not according to Christ. 9 For in Him dwells all the
fullness of the Godhead bodily; 10 and you are complete in Him,
who is the head of all principality and power.
Not Legalism but Christ

11 In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made
without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh,
by the circumcision of Christ, 12 buried with Him in baptism,
in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God,
who raised Him from the dead. 13 And you, being dead in
your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive
together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out
the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us.
And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
15 Having disarmed principalities and powers,
He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
16 So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding
a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, 17 which are a shadow of
things to come, but the substance is of Christ. 18 Let no one cheat
you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and
worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen,
vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 19 and not holding fast to the Head,
from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments,
grows with the increase that is from God.
20 Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why,
as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations
— 21 “Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,” 22 which all concern
things which perish with the using—according to the commandments
and doctrines of men? 23 These things indeed have an appearance of
wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body,
but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.

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2 Corinthians 5:12-21
Be Reconciled to God

12 For we do not commend ourselves again to you, but give
you opportunity to boast on our behalf, that you may have
an answer for those who boast in appearance and not in heart.
13 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; or if we are
of sound mind, it is for you. 14 For the love of Christ compels us,
because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died;
15 and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer
for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.
16 Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh.
Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now
we know Him thus no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ,
he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold,
all things have become new. 18 Now all things are of God, who has
reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us
the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was in Christ
reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them,
and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
20 Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were
pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God.
21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we
might become the righteousness of God in Him.