Colossians 2:14–20

14 He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it away by nailing it to the cross.z 15 He disarmed the rulers and authorities and disgraced them publicly; he triumphed over them in him.A,aa

16 Therefore, don’t let anyone judgeab you in regard to food and drinkac or in the matter of a festival or a new moonad or a Sabbath day.B 17 These are a shadowae of what was to come;af the substance isC Christ.ag 18 Let no one condemnD youah by delighting in ascetic practicesai and the worship of angels, claiming access to a visionary realm. Such people are inflatedaj by empty notions of their unspiritualE mind. 19 They don’t hold on to the head, from whom the whole body,ak nourished and held together by its ligaments and tendons, grows with growth from God.

20 If you died with Christal to the elements of this world, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations: