5 Though I am absent from you in my body, my heart is with you, and I am happy to see your good lives and your strong faith in Christ.
6 As you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so continue to live in him.
7 Keep your roots deep in him and have your lives built on him. Be strong in the faith, just as you were taught, and always be thankful.
8 Be sure that no one leads you away with false and empty teaching that is only human, which comes from the ruling spirits of this world, and not from Christ.
9 All of God lives fully in Christ (even when Christ was on earth),
10 and you have a full and true life in Christ, who is ruler over all rulers and powers.
11 Also in Christ you had a different kind of circumcision, a circumcision not done by hands. It was through Christ’s circumcision, that is, his death, that you were made free from the power of your sinful self.