^{4 Ref} and this I say, that no one may beguile you in enticing words,

^{5 Ref} for if even in the flesh I am absent -- yet in the spirit I am with you, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in regard to Christ;

^{6 Ref} as, then, ye did receive Christ Jesus the Lord, in him walk ye,

^{7 Ref} being rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye were taught -- abounding in it in thanksgiving.

^{8 Ref} See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,