Colossians 2:16-23

Christian Standard Bible

¹⁶ Therefore, don’t let anyone judge^(A) you in regard to food and drink^(B) or in the matter of a festival or a new moon^(C) or a Sabbath day.^{[a] 17} These are a shadow^(D) of what was to come;^(E) the substance is^[b] Christ.^{(F) 18} Let no one condemn^[c] you^(G) by delighting in ascetic practices^(H) and the worship of angels, claiming access to a visionary realm. Such people are inflated^(I) by empty notions of their unspiritual^[d] mind. ¹⁹ They don’t hold on to the head, from whom the whole body,^(J) nourished and held together by its ligaments and tendons, grows with growth from God.

²⁰ If you died with Christ^(K) 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”? ²² All these regulations refer to what is destined to perish by being used up; they are human commands and doctrines. ²³ Although these have a reputation for wisdom^(L) by promoting self-made religion, false humility, and severe treatment of the body, they are not of any value in curbing self-indulgence.^[e](M)