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] the Messiah.(F) 18 Let no one disqualify you,[c](G) insisting on ascetic practices(H) and the worship of angels, claiming access to a visionary realm and inflated(I) without cause by his unspiritual[d] mind.

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 2:16 Or or sabbaths
  2. Colossians 2:17 Or substance belongs to
  3. Colossians 2:18 Or no one cheat us out of your prize
  4. Colossians 2:18 Lit fleshly

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