Colossians 2:16-17

Expanded Bible

Don’t Follow People’s Rules

¹⁶ So do not let anyone ·make rules for [or criticize; judge; or condemn] you about eating and drinking or about a religious ·feast [festival], a New Moon Festival [2 Kin. 4:23; Neh. 10:33], or a Sabbath day [^Creligious observances that false teachers pressured the Colossians to keep]. ¹⁷ These things ·were like [^Lare] a shadow of what was to come. But ·what is true and real has come and is found in Christ [or the reality/substance belongs to Christ; ^Lthe body (is) of Christ].