Colossians 2:4-8 And this I say, lest any one should mislead you by the persuasiveness of words.

Murdock⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁴ And this I say, lest any one should mislead you by the persuasiveness of words. ⁵ For though I am separated from you in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit; and I rejoice at beholding your good order, and the stability of your faith in the Messiah. ⁶ As therefore ye have received Jesus the Messiah our Lord, walk ye in him, ⁷ strengthening your roots and building up yourselves in him, and establishing yourselves in the faith which ye have learned, in which may ye abound in thanksgiving. ⁸ Beware, lest any man make you naked by philosophy, and by vain deception, according to the doctrines of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to the Messiah,