4 Now this I say alest anyone should deceive you with persuasive words.
5 For athough I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing1 to see byour good order and the csteadfastness of your faith in Christ.
6aAs you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,
7arooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding1 in it with thanksgiving.
8 Beware lest anyone1 cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to athe tradition of men, according to the bbasic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.
9 For ain Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead1 bodily;
10 and you are complete in Him, who is the ahead of all principality and power.
Not Legalism but Christ
11 In Him you were also acircumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by bputting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,
12aburied with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through bfaith in the working of God, cwho 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,
14ahaving wiped out the1 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.
15aHaving disarmed bprincipalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
16 So let no one ajudge you in food or in drink, or regarding a1 festival or a new moon or sabbaths,
As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus - Many persons lay a certain stress on the words as and so, and make various fine heads of discourses from them; viz. As ye received Christ in a spirit of humility, so walk in him; as ye received him in a spirit of faith, so walk in him, etc., etc. This may be all proper in itself; but nothing of the kind was intended by the apostle. His meaning is simply this: Seeing ye have embraced the doctrine of Christ, continue to hold it fast, and not permit yourselves to be turned aside by sophistical or Judaizing teachers.
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