6So, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him, 7rooted in him and built upon him and established in the faith as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.^e 8See to it that no one captivate you with an empty, seductive philosophy according to human tradition, according to the elemental powers of the world^* and not according to Christ.^f

Sovereign Role of Christ. 9^g For in him dwells the whole fullness of the deity^* bodily, 10and you share in this fullness in him, who is the head of every principality and power. 11^h In him^* you were also circumcised with a circumcision not administered by hand, by stripping off the carnal body, with the circumcision of Christ. 12You were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.ⁱ 13^j And even when you were dead [in] transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he brought you to life along with him, having forgiven us all our transgressions; 14^* obliterating the bond against us, with its legal claims, which was opposed to us, he also removed it from our midst, nailing it to the cross;^k 15despoiling the principalities and the powers, he made a public spectacle of them,^l leading them away in triumph by it.^*