Colossians 2

¹For it is my desire to give you news of the great fight I am making for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not seen my face in the flesh;

²So that their hearts may be comforted, and that being joined together in love, they may come to the full wealth of the certain knowledge of the secret of God, even Christ,

³In whom are all the secret stores of wisdom and knowledge.

⁴I say this so that you may not be turned away by any deceit of words.

⁵For though I am not present in the flesh, still I am with you in the spirit, seeing with joy your order, and your unchanging faith in Christ.

⁶As, then, you took Christ Jesus the Lord, so go on in him,

⁷Rooted and based together in him, strong in the faith which the teaching gave you, giving praise to God at all times.

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.