Colossians 2:16–23

¹⁶Therefore, don’t let anyone judge^ab you in regard to food and drink^ac or in the matter of a festival or a new moon^ad or a Sabbath day.^{B 17}These are a shadow^ae of what was to come;^af the substance is^C Christ.^{ag 18}Let no one condemn^D you^ah by delighting in ascetic practices^ai and the worship of angels, claiming access to a visionary realm. Such people are inflated^aj by empty notions of their unspiritual^E mind. ¹⁹They 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.

²⁰If you died with Christ^al to the elements of this world, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations: ²¹“Don’t handle, don’t taste, don’t touch”? ²²All these regulations refer to what is destined to perish by being used up; they are human commands and doctrines. ²³Although these have a reputation for wisdom^am by promoting self-made religion, false humility, and severe treatment of the body, they are not of any value in curbing self-indulgence.^Fan