5. For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
6. Therefore in the manner in which ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him,
7. rooted and built up in him and confirmed in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
8. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the traditions of men, according to the elements of the world, and not after Christ.
9. For in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily,
10. and ye are complete in him, who is the head of all principality and power.
11. In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of the Christ;
12. buried together with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who has raised him from the dead.