I've been studying the book of Colossians with a group of women at our church, so today these verses readily came to my mind from Colassians chapter 2.
Therefore, as you
received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up
in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in
thanksgiving. See to it that no
one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human
tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
For in him the
whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have been
filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. In him also you
were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body
of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been
buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith
in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. And you, who were
dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive
together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the
record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside,
nailing it to the cross.
Happy Resurrection Day
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