To be, to exist. Eimi. When God names himself I AM, he uses this word. Existence itself belongs to him. Ground your identity in the one who simply is.

Taken captive, seduced, led astray. Sylagōgéō. Paul warns against those who take you captive through hollow philosophy and human tradition. Your mind is contested ground. Guard it.

Human philosophy, empty deception. Philosophia. Paul warned the Colossians not to be taken captive by hollow reasoning built on human tradition rather than Christ. Every system of thought must bow to him. Test everything against the wisdom that comes from above.

Empty, vain, without purpose. Do not receive the grace of God in vain. God's grace in your life should produce transformation not complacency.

A tradition, what is handed down. Paul passed on what he received. The Gospel is not invented by each generation. It is received and passed on.

something orderly in arrangement, i.e. (by implication) a serial (basal, fundamental, initial) constituent (literally), proposition (figuratively)

The world, the ordered universe. God so loved the kosmos. He loves what He made and He is working to redeem every part of it.

The one set apart and equipped for a specific task. Oil was poured on kings, priests and prophets in the Old Testament — the anointing meant: this one is chosen, this one is sent. Jesus stands up in Nazareth and reads Isaiah — and then says: this is Me. I am the one sent.