4. Now this I say lest anyone should deceive you with persuasive words.
5. For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
6. As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,
7. rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.
8. Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.
9. For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;