¹⁶ Therefore, let no one judge you in matters of food and drink or with respect to a festival, a New Moon, or Sabbath days.^{[a] 17} These are a shadow of the things to come, but the reality^[b] belongs to the Messiah.^{[c] 18} Let no one who delights in humility and the worship of angels cheat you out of the prize by rejoicing about what he has seen.^[d] Such a person is puffed up for no reason by his carnal mind. ¹⁹ He does not hold on to the head, from whom the whole body, which is nourished and held together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God enables it.