Colossians 2:13–23

¹³And you—being dead in the trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh—He made alive together with him, having forgiven you all the trespasses, ¹⁴having blotted out the handwriting in the ordinances that is against us, that was contrary to us, and he hath taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross; ¹⁵having stripped the principalities and the authorities, he made a shew of them openly—having triumphed over them in it.

¹⁶Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths, ¹⁷which are a shadow of the coming things, and the body is of the Christ; ¹⁸let no one beguile you of your prize, delighting in humble-mindedness and in worship of the messengers, intruding into the things he hath not seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh, ¹⁹and not holding the head, from which all the body—through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit together—may increase with the increase of God. ²⁰If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances? ²¹—thou mayest not touch, nor taste, nor handle— ²²which are all for destruction with the using, after the commands and teachings of men, ²³which are, indeed, having a matter of wisdom in will-worship, and humble-mindedness, and neglecting of body—not in any honour, unto a satisfying of the flesh.

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