⁸See to it that no one takes you captive by nphilosophy and oempty deceit, according to phuman tradition, according to the qelemental spirits1 of the world, and not according to Christ. ⁹For rin him the whole fullness of deity dwells sbodily, ¹⁰and tyou have been filled in him, who is uthe head of all rule and authority. ¹¹In him also vyou were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by wputting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, ¹²xhaving been buried with him in baptism, in which yyou were also raised with him through faith in zthe powerful working of God, zwho raised him from the dead. ¹³aAnd you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God bmade alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, ¹⁴by ccanceling dthe record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. ¹⁵wHe disarmed the rulers and authorities2 and eput them to open shame, by ftriumphing over them in him.3

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