¹ And he took me out into the inner square in the direction of the north: and he took me into the rooms which were opposite the separate place and opposite the building to the north.

² On the north side it was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide,

³ Opposite the space of twenty cubits which was part of the inner square, and opposite the stone floor of the outer square. There were covered ways facing one another on the third floor.

⁴ And in front of the rooms was a walk, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long; and their doors were facing north.

⁵ And the higher rooms were shorter: for the covered ways took up more space from these than from the lower and middle rooms.

⁶ For they were on three floors, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the outer square; so the highest was narrower than the lowest and middle floors from the earth level.

⁷ And the wall which went outside by the side of the rooms, in the direction of the outer square in front of the rooms, was fifty cubits long.

⁸ For the rooms in the outer square were fifty cubits long: and in front of the Temple was a space of a hundred cubits.

⁹ And under these rooms was the way in from the east side, as one goes into them from the outer square at the head of the outer wall.

¹⁰ (And he took me) to the south, and in front of the separate place and in front of the building there were rooms.

¹¹ And there was a walk in front of them like that by the rooms on the north; they were equally long and wide; and the ways out of them were the same in design and had the same sort of doors.

¹² And under the rooms on the south was a door at the head of the outer wall in the direction of the east as one goes in.

¹³ And he said to me, The north rooms and the south rooms in front of the separate place are the holy rooms, where the priests who come near the Lord take the most holy things for their food: there the most holy things are placed, with the meal offering and the sin-offering and the offering for error; for the place is holy.

¹⁴ When the priests go in, they may not go out of the holy place into the outer square, and there they are to put the robes in which they do the work of the Lord's house, for they are holy: and they have to put on other clothing before they come near that which has to do with the people.

¹⁵ And when he had come to the end of measuring the inner house, he took me out to the doorway looking to the east, and took its measure all round.

¹⁶ He went round and took the measure of it on the east side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

¹⁷ And he went round and took the measure of it on the north side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

¹⁸ And he went round and took the measure of it on the south side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

¹⁹ And he went round and took the measure of it on the west side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.

²⁰ He took its measure on the four sides: and it had a wall all round, five hundred long and five hundred wide, separating what was holy from what was common.

¹ For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

² that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

³ in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.

⁴ Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

⁵ For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

⁶ As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

⁷ rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

⁸ Be careful that you don't let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

⁹ For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,

¹⁰ and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;

¹¹ in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

¹² having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

¹³ You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

¹⁴ wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

¹⁵ having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

¹⁶ Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

¹⁷ which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's.

¹⁸ Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

¹⁹ and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God's growth.

²⁰ If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

²¹ "Don't handle, nor taste, nor touch"

²² (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?

²³ Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren't of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.