Colossians 2:16-23

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Do Not Be Judged by Human Religious Rules

¹⁶ Therefore do not let anyone judge you with reference to eating or^[a] drinking or participation in a feast or a new moon or a Sabbath, ¹⁷ which are a shadow of what is to come, but the reality is Christ. ¹⁸ Let no one condemn you, taking pleasure in humility and the worship of angels, going into detail about the things which he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind, ¹⁹ and not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by the ligaments and sinews, grows with the growth of God.

²⁰ If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit to them as if living in the world? ²¹ “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch,” ²² which things are all meant for destruction by consuming according to human commandments and teachings, ²³ which things although they have^[b],^[c] to be sure, an appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and humility and unsparing treatment of the body, do not have any value^[d] against the indulgence of the flesh.