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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.
9 For it is in him that all the fulness of God's nature lives embodied,
10 and in union with him you too are filled with it. He is the head of all your principalities and dominions.
11 Through your relation to him you have received not a physical circumcision, but a circumcision effected by Christ, in stripping you of your material nature,