Colossians 2:8-15

8Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you through an empty, deceitful philosophy that is according to human traditions and the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

9For in him all the fullness of deity lives in bodily form,

10and you have been filled in him, who is the head over every ruler and authority.

11In him you also were circumcised – not, however, with a circumcision performed by human hands, but by the removal of the fleshly body, that is, through the circumcision done by Christ.

12Having been buried with him in baptism, you also have been raised with him through your faith in the power of God who raised him from the dead.

13And even though you were dead in your transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he nevertheless made you alive with him, having forgiven all your transgressions.

14He has destroyed what was against us, a certificate of indebtedness expressed in decrees opposed to us. He has taken it away by nailing it to the cross.

15Disarming the rulers and authorities, he has made a public disgrace of them, triumphing over them by the cross.