4. I am telling you this so that no one will deceive you with persuasive-sounding arguments.
5. For even though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit—rejoicing to see your good order and the steadfastness of your trust in Messiah.
6. Therefore as you received Messiah Yeshua as Lord, so continue to walk in Him—
7. rooted and built up in Him and established in your faith just as you were taught, overflowing with thankfulness.
8. See that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men and the basic principles of the world rather than Messiah.
9. For all the fullness of Deity lives bodily in Him,
10. and in Him you have been filled to fullness. He is the head over every ruler and authority.
11. In Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision done not by hand, in the stripping away of the body of the flesh through the circumcision of Messiah.
12. You were buried along with Him in immersion, through which you also were raised with Him by trusting in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.
13. When you were dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive together with Him when He pardoned us all our transgressions.
14. He wiped out the handwritten record of debts with the decrees against us, which was hostile to us. He took it away by nailing it to the cross.
15. After disarming the principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in the cross.
16. Therefore, do not let anyone pass judgment on you in matters of food or drink, or in respect to a festival or new moon or Shabbat.