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16 Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. Therefore - refers back to Paul’s teaching on the fullness and sufficiency of Christ and our having been “filled in Him (10)” “brought into covenant with Him (11)” “buried…

8 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. “Captive” is a play on words for the word “synagogue” Don’t be made a slave to Philosophy ( system of thought) Those in…

6 Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, Therefore : Ties the verse into what has come before As you received Christ Jesus the Lord This clause reminds readers what has just been said Central point of 1:3-2:5: Jesus Christ is Lord and we have entered into His Lordship “Landlord”…

24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church, Now, serves as a conjunction to the closing idea that Paul has become a minister of the Gospel (vs. 23) I rejoice in my suffering for…

Philosophy “The ends justify the means” AKA - Consequentialism deontology (from Greek δέον, deon , "obligation, duty") is the ethical theory that the morality of an action should be based on whether that action itself is right or wrong under a series of rules, rather than based on the consequences of…