4. Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.
5. For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Messiah.
6. As therefore you received Messiah Yeshua, the Lord, walk in him,
7. rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.
8. Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Messiah.
9. For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily,
10. and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;
11. in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Messiah;
12. having been buried with him in immersion, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
13. You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
14. wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;
15. having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.