Colossians 2:6–14

⁶So then, just as you have received^m Christ Jesus as Lord,ⁿ continue to walk in him, ⁷being rooted and built up in him^o and established in the faith, just as you were taught,^p and overflowing with gratitude.

⁸Be careful that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit based on human tradition,^q based on the elements of the world, rather than Christ.^{r 9}For the entire fullness^s of God’s nature dwells bodily^C in Christ, ¹⁰and you have been filled by him, who is the head^t over every ruler and authority. ¹¹You were also circumcised in him with a circumcision not done with hands, by putting off the body of flesh,^u in the circumcision of Christ,^{v 12}when you were buried with him^w in baptism, in which you were also raised with him^x through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.^{y 13}And when you were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he made you alive with him and forgave us all our trespasses. ¹⁴He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it away by nailing it to the cross.^z