5 because even though I am absent physically, I’m with you in spirit. I’m happy to see the discipline and stability of your faith in Christ.
6 So live in Christ Jesus the Lord in the same way as you received him.
7 Be rooted and built up in him, be established in faith, and overflow with thanksgiving just as you were taught.
8 See to it that nobody enslaves you with philosophy and foolish deception, which conform to human traditions and the way the world thinks and acts rather than Christ.
9 All the fullness of deity lives in Christ’s body.
10 And you have been filled by him, who is the head of every ruler and authority.
11 You were also circumcised by him. This wasn’t performed by human hands—the whole body was removed through this circumcision by Christ.