Colossians 2:1-3, 5, 7, 9-10, 12, 15-20, 22

For I would have you know how greatly I strive for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, even Christ, in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.

For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

rooted and builded up in him, and established in your faith, even as ye were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, and in him ye are made full, who is the head of all principality and power

having been buried with him in baptism, wherein ye were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

having despoiled the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a sabbath day: which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s. Let no man rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he hath seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, and not holding fast the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, increaseth with the increase of God. If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances

(all which things are to perish with the using), after the precepts and doctrines of men?