⁶Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, live in him, ⁷firmly rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding with thankfulness. ⁸Beware lest anyone take you captive^b through philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition^c, according to the elemental spirits of the world and not according to Christ, ⁹because in him all the fullness of deity dwells bodily, ¹⁰and you are filled in him, who is the head over every ruler and authority, ¹¹in whom also you were circumcised with a circumcision not made by hands, by the removal of the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, ¹²having been buried with him in baptism, in which also you were raised together with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. ¹³And although you were dead^d^* in the trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, ¹⁴having destroyed the certificate of indebtedness in ordinances against us, which was hostile to us, and removed it out of the way by^* nailing it to the cross.

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Colossians 2:10: … and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.

Footnotes

bLiterally “anyone be the one who takes captive you”
cLiterally “the tradition of men”
dLiterally “and you being dead”
*Here the participle (“being”) is understood as concessive
*Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“nailing”) which is understood as means