Let No One Disqualify You

¹⁶Therefore let no one gpass judgment on you hin questions of food and drink, or with regard to ia festival or ja new moon or a Sabbath. ¹⁷kThese are a shadow of the things to come, but lthe substance belongs to Christ. ¹⁸Let no one mdisqualify you, ninsisting on asceticism and worship of angels, ogoing on in detail about visions,4 ppuffed up without reason by qhis sensuous mind, ¹⁹and rnot sholding 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 tyou died to the uelemental spirits of the world, vwhy, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations— ²¹w“Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch” ²²(xreferring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to yhuman precepts and teachings? ²³These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in zpromoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are aof no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.

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