These are all destined to perish with use, founded as they are ¹  on human commands and teachings. ² 

Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you ¹  through an empty, deceitful philosophy ²  that is according to human traditions and the elemental spirits ³  of the world, and not according to Christ.

In him you also were circumcised – not, however, ¹  with a circumcision performed by human hands, but by the removal ²  of the fleshly body, ³  that is, ⁴  through the circumcision done by Christ.

For in him all the fullness of deity lives ¹  in bodily form,

since ¹  we heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints.

but now he has reconciled you ¹  by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him –

For though ¹  I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, rejoicing to see ²  your morale ³  and the firmness of your faith in Christ.

Let no one who delights in humility and the worship of angels pass judgment on you. That person goes on at great lengths ¹  about what he has supposedly seen, but he is puffed up with empty notions by his fleshly mind. ²