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Romans 10

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¹ When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh (worldliness, manner of life), God made you alive together with Christ, having [freely] forgiven us all our sins,

² having canceled out the[7] certificate of debt consisting of[8] legal demands [which were in force] against us and which were hostile to us. And this certificate He has set aside and completely removed by nailing it to the cross.

³ When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities [those supernatural forces of evil operating against us], He made a public example of them [exhibiting them as captives in His triumphal procession], having triumphed over them through[9] the cross.

⁴ Therefore let no one judge you in regard to food and drink or in regard to [the observance of] a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day.

⁵ Such things are only a shadow of what is to come and they have only symbolic value; but the substance [the reality of what is foreshadowed] belongs to Christ.

⁶ Let no one defraud you of your prize [your freedom in Christ and your salvation] by insisting on mock humility and the worship of angels, going into detail about visions [he claims] he has seen [to justify his authority], puffed up [in conceit] by his unspiritual mind,

⁷ and not holding fast to the head [of the body, Jesus Christ], from whom the entire body, supplied and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows with the growth [that can come only] from God.

⁸ If you have died with Christ to the[10] elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were still living in the world, do you submit to rules and regulations, such as,

⁹ Do not handle [this], do not taste [that], do not [even] touch!?

¹⁰ (these things all perish with use)—in accordance with the commandments and teachings of men.

¹¹ These practices indeed have the appearance [that popularly passes as that] of wisdom in self-made religion and mock humility and severe treatment of the body (asceticism), but are of no value against sinful indulgence [because they do not honor God].

¹² Therefore if you have been raised with Christ [to a new life, sharing in His resurrection from the dead], keep seeking the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

¹³ Set your mind and keep focused habitually on the things above [the heavenly things], not on things that are on the earth [which have only temporal value].

¹⁴ For you died [to this world], and your [new, real] life is hidden with Christ in God.

¹⁵ When Christ, who is our life,[1] appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.

¹⁶ So put to death and deprive of power the evil longings of your earthly body [with its sensual, self-centered instincts] immorality, impurity, sinful passion, evil desire, and greed, which is [a kind of] idolatry [because it replaces your devotion to God].

¹⁷ Because of these [sinful] things the [divine] wrath of God is coming[2] on the sons of disobedience [those who fail to listen and who routinely and obstinately disregard God's precepts],

¹⁸ and in these [sinful things] you also once walked, when you were habitually living in them [without the knowledge of Christ].

¹⁹ But now rid yourselves [completely] of all these things: anger, rage, malice, slander, and obscene (abusive, filthy, vulgar) language from your mouth.

²⁰ Do not lie to one another, for you have stripped off the old self with its evil practices,

²¹ and have put on the new [spiritual] self who is being continually renewed in true knowledge in the image of Him who created the new self—

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1	When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh (worldliness, manner of life), God made you alive together with Christ, having [freely] forgiven us all our sins,
2	having canceled out the[7] certificate of debt consisting of[8] legal demands [which were in force] against us and which were hostile to us. And this certificate He has set aside and completely removed by nailing it to the cross.
3	When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities [those supernatural forces of evil operating against us], He made a public example of them [exhibiting them as captives in His triumphal procession], having triumphed over them through[9] the cross.
4	Therefore let no one judge you in regard to food and drink or in regard to [the observance of] a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day.
5	Such things are only a shadow of what is to come and they have only symbolic value; but the substance [the reality of what is foreshadowed] belongs to Christ.
6	Let no one defraud you of your prize [your freedom in Christ and your salvation] by insisting on mock humility and the worship of angels, going into detail about visions [he claims] he has seen [to justify his authority], puffed up [in conceit] by his unspiritual mind,
7	and not holding fast to the head [of the body, Jesus Christ], from whom the entire body, supplied and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows with the growth [that can come only] from God.
8	If you have died with Christ to the[10] elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were still living in the world, do you submit to rules and regulations, such as,
9	Do not handle [this], do not taste [that], do not [even] touch!?
10	(these things all perish with use)—in accordance with the commandments and teachings of men.
11	These practices indeed have the appearance [that popularly passes as that] of wisdom in self-made religion and mock humility and severe treatment of the body (asceticism), but are of no value against sinful indulgence [because they do not honor God].
12	Therefore if you have been raised with Christ [to a new life, sharing in His resurrection from the dead], keep seeking the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
13	Set your mind and keep focused habitually on the things above [the heavenly things], not on things that are on the earth [which have only temporal value].
14	For you died [to this world], and your [new, real] life is hidden with Christ in God.
15	When Christ, who is our life,[1] appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
16	So put to death and deprive of power the evil longings of your earthly body [with its sensual, self-centered instincts] immorality, impurity, sinful passion, evil desire, and greed, which is [a kind of] idolatry [because it replaces your devotion to God].
17	Because of these [sinful] things the [divine] wrath of God is coming[2] on the sons of disobedience [those who fail to listen and who routinely and obstinately disregard God's precepts],
18	and in these [sinful things] you also once walked, when you were habitually living in them [without the knowledge of Christ].
19	But now rid yourselves [completely] of all these things: anger, rage, malice, slander, and obscene (abusive, filthy, vulgar) language from your mouth.
20	Do not lie to one another, for you have stripped off the old self with its evil practices,
21	and have put on the new [spiritual] self who is being continually renewed in true knowledge in the image of Him who created the new self—

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