Colossians 2:8–15

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. ¹⁵When he^* had disarmed the rulers and the authorities, he made a display of them in public, triumphing over them by it.^e