Colossians 2:6-13

6Therefore, as you have received 1Christ Jesus the Lord, so 23walk in Him, 7having been firmly 4rooted and now being 5built up in Him and 6established 7in 8your faith, just as you 9were instructed, and overflowing 10with gratitude.

811See to it that there is no one who takes you captive through 12philosophy and empty deception in accordance with human tradition, in accordance with the 13elementary principles of the world, 14rather than in accordance with Christ. 9For in Him all the 15fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, 10and in Him you have been 16made 17complete, and 18He is the head 19over every 20ruler and authority; 11and in Him 21you were also circumcised with a circumcision performed without hands, in the removal of 22the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ, 12having been 23buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also 24raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who 25raised Him from the dead. 13And 26when you were 27dead 28in your wrongdoings and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He 29made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our wrongdoings,