⁴ and not to occupy themselves with myths and endless genealogies that promote speculations rather than the divine training^[a] that is known by faith.^(A)

¹⁴ not paying attention to Jewish myths or to commandments of those who reject the truth.^(A)

¹⁸ Do not let anyone disqualify you, insisting on self-abasement and worship of angels, initiatory visions,^[a] puffed up without cause by a human way of thinking,^{[b] 19} and not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and tendons, grows with a growth that is from God.^(A)

Warnings against False Teachers

²⁰ If with Christ you died to the elemental principles^[c] of the world, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations,^{(B) 21} “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”? ²² All these regulations refer to things that perish with use; they are simply human commands and teachings.^(C)

²⁰ Do you want to be shown, you senseless person, that faith apart from works is worthless?^[a]

⁹ Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by regulations about food,^[a] which have not benefited those who observe them.^(A)

A Good Minister of Jesus Christ

⁶ If you put these instructions before the brothers and sisters, you will be a good servant^[a] of Christ Jesus, nourished on the words of the faith and of the sound teaching that you have followed.^{(A) 7} Have nothing to do with profane and foolish tales. Train yourself in godliness,^(B)

False and True Worship