Colossians 2:11-3

New International Version

¹¹ In him you were also circumcised^(A) with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh^[a](B) was put off when you were circumcised by^[b] Christ, ¹² having been buried with him in baptism,^(C) in which you were also raised with him^(D) through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.^(E)

¹³ When you were dead in your sins^(F) and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you^[c] alive^(G) with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,^{(H) 14} having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness,^(I) which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.^{(J) 15} And having disarmed the powers and authorities,^(K) he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them^(L) by the cross.^[d]

Freedom From Human Rules

¹⁶ Therefore do not let anyone judge you^(M) by what you eat or drink,^(N) or with regard to a religious festival,^(O) a New Moon celebration^(P) or a Sabbath day.^{(Q) 17} These are a shadow of the things that were to come;^(R) the reality, however, is found in Christ. ¹⁸ Do not let anyone who delights in false humility^(S) and the worship of angels disqualify you.^(T) Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind. ¹⁹ They have lost connection with the head,^(U) from whom the whole body,^(V) supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.^(W)

²⁰ Since you died with Christ^(X) to the elemental spiritual forces of this world,^(Y) why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules:^{(Z) 21} “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”? ²² These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish^(AA) with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings.^{(AB) 23} Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility^(AC) and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.

Living as Those Made Alive in Christ

3 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ,^(AD) set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.^{(AE) 2} Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.^{(AF) 3} For you died,^(AG) and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. ⁴ When Christ, who is your^[e] life,^(AH) appears,^(AI) then you also will appear with him in glory.^(AJ)

⁵ Put to death,^(AK) therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature:^(AL) sexual immorality,^(AM) impurity, lust, evil desires and greed,^(AN) which is idolatry.^{(AO) 6} Because of these, the wrath of God^(AP) is coming.^{[f] 7} You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived.^{(AQ) 8} But now you must also rid yourselves^(AR) of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander,^(AS) and filthy language from your lips.^{(AT) 9} Do not lie to each other,^(AU) since you have taken off your old self^(AV) with its practices ¹⁰ and have put on the new self,^(AW) which is being renewed^(AX) in knowledge in the image of its Creator.^{(AY) 11} Here there is no Gentile or Jew,^(AZ) circumcised or uncircumcised,^(BA) barbarian, Scythian, slave or free,^(BB) but Christ is all,^(BC) and is in all.