Colossians 2:16-23 (English Standard Version)

Let No One Disqualify You

 ¹⁶Therefore let no one^(A) pass judgment on you^(B) in questions of food and drink, or with regard to^(C) a festival or^(D) a new moon or a Sabbath. ^17(E) These are a shadow of the things to come, but^(F) the substance belongs to Christ. ¹⁸Let no one^(G) disqualify you,^(H) insisting on asceticism and worship of angels,^(I) going on in detail about visions,^[a](J) puffed up without reason by^(K) his sensuous mind, ¹⁹and^(L) not^(M) holding 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^(N) you died to the^(O) elemental spirits of the world,^(P) why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations— ^21(Q) "Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch" ²²(^(R) referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to^(S) human precepts and teachings? ²³These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in^(T) promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are^(U) of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.