16 Therefore no one is to [a](A)act as your judge in regard to (B)food or (C)drink or in respect to a (D)festival or a (E)new moon or a (F)Sabbath [b]day— 17 things which are (G)a mere shadow of what is to come; but the [c]substance [d]belongs to Christ. 18 Let no one keep [e](H)defrauding you of your prize by (I)delighting in [f]self-abasement and the worship of the angels, [g]taking his stand on visions he has seen, [h](J)inflated without cause by his (K)fleshly mind, 19 and not holding fast to (L)the head, from whom (M)the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and [i]ligaments, grows with a growth [j]which is from God.

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 2:16 Lit judge you
  2. Colossians 2:16 Or days
  3. Colossians 2:17 Lit body
  4. Colossians 2:17 Lit of Christ
  5. Colossians 2:18 Or deciding against you
  6. Colossians 2:18 Or humility
  7. Colossians 2:18 Or going into detail about
  8. Colossians 2:18 Or conceited
  9. Colossians 2:19 Lit bonds
  10. Colossians 2:19 Lit of God