Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

¹⁶ Let none therefore judge you in meat or in drink, or in matter of feast, or new moon, or sabbaths,

¹⁷ which are a shadow of things to come; but the body [is] of Christ.

¹⁸ Let no one fraudulently deprive you of your prize, doing his own will in humility and worship of angels, entering into things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

¹⁹ and not holding fast the head, from whom all the body, ministered to and united together by the joints and bands, increases with the increase of God.

²⁰ If ye have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why as [if] alive in [the] world do ye subject yourselves to ordinances?

²¹ Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch,

²² (things which are all for destruction in the using [of them]:) according to the injunctions and teachings of men,

²³ (which have indeed an appearance of wisdom in voluntary worship, and humility, and harsh treatment of the body, not in a certain honour,) to [the] satisfaction of the flesh.