8. See to it that no one makes a prey of you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary matters of the world, and not according to Messiah.
9. Because in Him dwells all the completeness of the Mightiness bodily,
10. and you have been made complete in Him, who is the Head of all principality and authority.
11. In Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Messiah,
12. having been buried with Him in immersion, in which you also were raised with Him through the belief in the working of Elohim, 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. having blotted out the certificate of debt against us – by the dogmas – which stood against us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the stake.
15. Having stripped the principalities and the authorities, He made a public display of them, having prevailed over them in it.
16. Let no one therefore judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths –
17. which are a shadow of what is to come – but the Body of the Messiah.
18. Let no one deprive you of the prize, one who takes delight in false humility and worship of messengers, taking his stand on what he has not seen, puffed up by his fleshly mind,
19. and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the Body – nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments – grows with the growth of Elohim.