“See that no one will be carrying you away as spoil through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,”— Colossians 2:8 (LSV)
5for if even in the flesh I am absent—yet in the spirit I am with you, rejoicing and beholding your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in regard to Christ;
6as, then, you received Christ Jesus the LORD, walk in Him,
7being rooted and built up in Him, and confirmed in the faith, as you were taught—abounding in it in thanksgiving.
8See that no one will be carrying you away as spoil through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,
9because in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily,
10and you are made full in Him, who is the head of all principality and authority,
11in whom you also were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of sins of the flesh by the circumcision of the Christ,