2:6 Therefore, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, ¹  continue to live your lives ²  in him, 2:7 rooted ³  and built up in him and firm ⁴  in your ⁵  faith just as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. 2:8 Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you ⁶  through an empty, deceitful philosophy ⁷  that is according to human traditions and the elemental spirits ⁸  of the world, and not according to Christ. 2:9 For in him all the fullness of deity lives ⁹  in bodily form, 2:10 and you have been filled in him, who is the head over every ruler and authority. 2:11 In him you also were circumcised – not, however, ¹⁰  with a circumcision performed by human hands, but by the removal ¹¹  of the fleshly body, ¹²  that is, ¹³  through the circumcision done by Christ. 2:12 Having been buried with him in baptism, you also have been raised with him through your ¹⁴  faith in the power ¹⁵  of God who raised him from the dead. 2:13 And even though you were dead in your ¹⁶  transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he nevertheless ¹⁷  made you alive with him, having forgiven all your transgressions. 2:14 He has destroyed ¹⁸  what was against us, a certificate of indebtedness ¹⁹  expressed in decrees opposed to us. He has taken it away by nailing it to the cross. 2:15 Disarming ²⁰  the rulers and authorities, he has made a public disgrace of them, triumphing over them by the cross. ²¹