⁷ rooted^(A) and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught,^(B) and overflowing with thankfulness.

⁸ See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy,^(C) which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces^[a] of this world^(D) rather than on Christ.

⁹ For in Christ all the fullness^(E) of the Deity lives in bodily form,