Colossians 2:12

CONTEXT- Conflict over the Doctrine Colossians 2:1-23 1 I want you to recognize how greatly I exert myself in the contest for you and those in Laodicea [and Hierapolis] and those who have not personally met me, 2:2 that their Christ in you the hope of glory. hearts might be encouraged, being knit together in love to the end of having all rich understanding with full persuasion, that is, the full, exact knowledge of the Mystery pertaining to Christ. 3 In this [Mystery] are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 4 Now my point is, let no one deceive you by false, persuasive speech. 5 Even if I am not with you physically, yet I am with you spiritually, rejoicing and watching your orderliness and the stability of your believing in Christ. 6 Therefore, as you have received Christ Jesus the lord [in you], so walk in him, 7 strengthening your roots and being edified in him and being firmly established in the family faith as you have been taught, abounding with thanksgiving. 8 Watch carefully that no one steals from you by vain, deceitful philosophy based on men’s tradition and worldly principles, rather than Christ, 9 for in him all the fullness of the Godhead lives completely. 10 And you are absolutely complete in him [Christ] who is the head over all principality and power. 11 You were circumcised in him by the nonphysical circumcision, by stripping off the sin nature, by the circumcision of Christ. 12 You were buried with him in baptism, with whom you were also raised by believing in the energizing power of God, Who raised him from among the dead. 13 When you were dead in sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He [God] made you alive together with him [Christ] by graciously remitting all your sins. 14 Having canceled the handwritten account of our personal debts with its indictments posted adversely against us, he has removed it and nailed it to the cross. 15 By putting off his body, he has boldly made a public spectacle of the principalities and powers b