Colossians 2:7-9

International Standard Version

⁷ For you have been rooted in him and are being built up and strengthened in the faith, just as you were taught, while you continue to be thankful. ⁸ See to it that no one enslaves you through philosophy and empty deceit according to human tradition, according to the basic principles of the world,^[a] and not according to the Messiah,^{[b] 9} because all the essence^[c] of deity inhabits him in bodily form.