Moffatt(i)
4 I say this to prevent you from being deluded by plausible arguments from anybody;
5 for although I am absent in body I am with you in spirit, and it is a joy to note your steadiness and the solid front of your faith in Christ.
6 Since you have had the messiah, even Jesus the Lord, brought to you, lead your life in him,
7 fixed and founded in him, confirmed in the faith as you have been taught it, and overflowing with thankfulness to God.
8 Beware of anyone getting hold of you by means of a theosophy which is specious make-believe, on the lines of human tradition, corresponding to the Elemental spirits of the world and not to Christ.