Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

So Be Walking In Christ And Established In The Faith You Were Taught

⁶ As then you received Christ Jesus the^[a] Lord, be walking in Him— ⁷ having been rooted, and being built-up in Him, and being established in the^[b] faith just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

Don’t Be Taken Captive By Human Thinking, Because All God’s Fullness Is In Christ

⁸ Be watching-out that there will not be anyone taking you captive through philosophy and empty deception according-to^[c] the tradition of humans, according to the elemental things^[d] of the world, and not according to Christ, ⁹ because in Him dwells all the fullness of the Deity^[e] bodily^[f].

You Are Complete In Christ, With Whom You Have Been Buried And Raised Up

¹⁰ And in Him you are complete^[g], Who is the head of all rule^[h] and authority, ¹¹ in Whom you also were circumcised with a circumcision not-done-by-human-hands, in^[i] the taking-off ^[j] of the body^[k] of the flesh in the circumcision of ^[l] Christ— ¹² having been buried-with Him in baptism, in which^[m] you also were raised-with Him through faith in the working of God, the One having raised Him from the dead.

Indeed, God Made Us Alive With Christ, Having Forgiven All Our Trespasses

¹³ Indeed, you being dead in the trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh— He made you alive-together with Him, having forgiven us all the trespasses, ¹⁴ having wiped-out^[n] the written-document^[o] against us with^[p] its decrees, which was opposed to us. Indeed, He has taken it out of the middle, having nailed it to the cross! ¹⁵ Having stripped^[q] the rulers and the authorities, He exposed them in public, having celebrated-a-triumph-over^[r] them in Him^[s]!