Colossians 2

¹For I would have you know, what manner of care I have for you and for them that are at Laodicea, and whosoever have not seen my face in the flesh:

²That their hearts may be comforted, being instructed in charity, and unto all riches of fulness of understanding, unto the knowledge of the mystery of God the Father and of Christ Jesus:

³In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

⁴Now this I say, that no man may deceive you by loftiness of words.

⁵For though I be absent in body, yet in spirit I am with you; rejoicing, and beholding your order, and the steadfastness of your faith which is in Christ.

⁶As therefore you have received Jesus Christ the Lord, walk ye in him;

⁷Rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as also you have learned, abounding in him in thanksgiving.

⁸Beware lest any man cheat you by philosophy, and vain deceit; according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ:

⁹For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead corporeally;

¹⁰And you are filled in him, who is the head of all principality and power:

¹¹In whom also you are circumcised with circumcision not made by hand, in despoiling of the body of the flesh, but in the circumcision of Christ:

¹²Buried with him in baptism, in whom also you are risen again by the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him up from the dead.