5For 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 Christ.
6As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,
7rooted and built up in him, and established in your faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.
8Be 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 Christ.
9For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,
10and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;
11in 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 Christ;