Colossians 2:13-19

English Standard Version

¹³^(A)And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God ^(B)made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, ¹⁴by ^(C)canceling ^(D)the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. ¹⁵^(E)He disarmed the rulers and authorities^[a] and ^(F)put them to open shame, by ^(G)triumphing over them in him.^[b]

Let No One Disqualify You

¹⁶Therefore let no one ^(H)pass judgment on you ^(I)in questions of food and drink, or with regard to ^(J)a festival or ^(K)a new moon or a Sabbath. ¹⁷^(L)These are a shadow of the things to come, but ^(M)the substance belongs to Christ. ¹⁸Let no one ^(N)disqualify you, ^(O)insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, ^(P)going on in detail about visions,^[c] ^(Q)puffed up without reason by ^(R)his sensuous mind, ¹⁹and ^(S)not ^(T)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.