Colossians 2:16-23

Let No One Disqualify You

16Therefore let no one apass judgment on you bin questions of food and drink, or with regard to ca festival or da new moon or a Sabbath. 17 eThese are a shadow of the things to come, but fthe substance belongs to Christ. 18Let no one gdisqualify you, hinsisting on asceticism and worship of angels, igoing on in detail about visions,
Or  about the things he has seen
kpuffed up without reason by lhis sensuous mind,
19and mnot nholding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.

20If with Christ oyou died to the pelemental spirits of the world, qwhy, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations 21 r“Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch 22( sreferring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to thuman precepts and teachings? 23These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in upromoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are vof no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.

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