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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)

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Footnotes

  1. 2.18 Meaning of Gk uncertain
  2. 2.18 Gk by the mind of his flesh

18 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility(A) and the worship of angels disqualify you.(B) Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind. 19 They have lost connection with the head,(C) from whom the whole body,(D) supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.(E)

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