^6 (A)As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, ^7 (B)rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding ^[a]in it with thanksgiving.

⁸ Beware lest anyone ^[b]cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to ^(C)the tradition of men, according to the ^(D)basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. ⁹ For ^(E)in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead ^[c]bodily; ¹⁰ and you are complete in Him, who is the ^(F)head of all ^[d]principality and power.

Not Legalism but Christ

¹¹ In Him you were also ^(G)circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by ^(H)putting off the body ^[e]of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, ^12 (I)buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through ^(J)faith in the working of God, ^(K)who raised Him from the dead. ¹³ And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, ^14 (L)having wiped out the ^[f]handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. ^15 (M)Having disarmed ^(N)principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.

¹⁶ So let no one ^(O)judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a ^[g]festival or a new moon or sabbaths, ^17 (P)which are a shadow of things to come, but the ^[h]substance is of Christ. ¹⁸ Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has ^[i]not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, ¹⁹ and not holding fast to ^(Q)the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, ^(R)grows with the increase that is from God.

^20 [j]Therefore, if you ^(S)died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, ^(T)why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations— ^21 (U)“Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,” ²² which all concern things which perish with the using—^(V)according to the commandments and doctrines of men? ^23 (W)These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and ^[k]neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.

Not Carnality but Christ

3 If then you were ^(X)raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, ^(Y)where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. ² Set your mind on things above, not on things on the ^(Z)earth. ^3 (AA)For you died, ^(AB)and your life is hidden with Christ in God. ^4 (AC)When Christ who is ^(AD)our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in ^(AE)glory.

^5 (AF)Therefore put to death ^(AG)your members which are on the earth: ^(AH)fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, ^(AI)which is idolatry. ^6 (AJ)Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon ^(AK)the sons of disobedience, ^7 (AL)in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them.

^8 (AM)But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. ⁹ Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, ¹⁰ and have put on the new man who ^(AN)is renewed in knowledge ^(AO)according to the image of Him who ^(AP)created him, ¹¹ where there is neither ^(AQ)Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, ^(AR)but Christ is all and in all.

⁴ that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who ^(A)do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. ⁵ For ^(B)those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, ^(C)the things of the Spirit. ⁶ For ^(D)to be ^[a]carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

² And ^(A)do not be conformed to this world, but ^(B)be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may ^(C)prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Meditate on These Things

⁸ Finally, brethren, whatever things are ^(A)true, whatever things are ^(B)noble, whatever things are ^(C)just, ^(D)whatever things are pure, whatever things are ^(E)lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.

Preeminence of Christ

^9 (A)For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask ^(B)that you may be filled with ^(C)the knowledge of His will ^(D)in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;