8Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:
9For in him all the wealth of God's being has a living form,
10And you are complete in him, who is the head of all rule and authority:
11In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;
12Having been put to death with him in baptism, by which you came to life again with him, through faith in the working of God, who made him come back from the dead.
13And you, being dead through your sins and the evil condition of your flesh, to you, I say, he gave life together with him, and forgiveness of all our sins;
14Having put an end to the handwriting of the law which was against us, taking it out of the way by nailing it to his cross;