As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,
rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith,
as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving!
See to it that there is no one who takes you captive through philosophy
and empty deception in accordance with human tradition,
in accordance with the elementary principles of the world,
rather than in accordance with Christ.
For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form,
and in Him you have been made complete,
and He is the head over every ruler and authority;
and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision performed without hands,
in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ,
having been buried with Him in baptism,
in which you were also raised with Him through faith in the working of God,
who raised Him from the dead.
And when you were dead in your wrongdoings and the uncircumcision of your flesh,
He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our wrongdoings,
having canceled the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us,
which was hostile to us;
and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities,
He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him.
Therefore, no one is to act as your judge in regard to food and drink,
or in respect to a festival or a new moon, or a Sabbath day ~
things which are only a shadow of what is to come;
but the substance belongs to Christ.
Take care that no one keeps defrauding you of your prize
by delighting in humility and the worship of the angels,
taking his stand on visions he has seen,
inflated without cause by his fleshly mind…
~ Colossians 2:6-18