Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

¹⁶ Therefore, let no one judge you as regards food and drink, or regarding a holy day or the new moon or the Sabbath,

¹⁷ which are a shadow of things to come. But the body is of Christ.

¹⁸ Let no one, at his pleasure, bear rule over you by his humbleness of mind and his worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he has never seen, being rashly puffed up with his fleshly mind

¹⁹ and not taking hold of the Head (from Whom all the body, supplied and knit together by joints and bonds, grows with a growth that is from God).

²⁰ Therefore, if you have died with Christ from the principles of the world, why then (as though you lived in the world) do you submit to ordinances such as:

²¹ “Touch not! Taste not! Handle not!”,

²² which all perish with use and are according to the commandments and doctrines of man?

²³ These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom and of voluntary religion and humbleness of mind and of not sparing the body but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.