Colossians 2:4-8

Goodspeed(i) 4 What I mean is, let nobody mislead you by specious arguments. 5 For though I am absent from you in person I am with you in spirit, and I am glad to observe your harmony and the solidity of your faith in Christ. 6 So just as you once accepted the Christ, Jesus, as your Lord, you must live in vital union with him. 7 You must be rooted and built up in him and made strong in faith, just as you were taught to be, overflowing with it in your gratitude. 8 Take care that nobody exploits you through the pretensions of philosophy, guided by human tradition, following material ways of looking at things, instead of following Christ.