Colossians 2:16-23
“Therefore,
no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in
respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day—
17 things which are a mere shadow
of what is to come; but the substance belongs to CHRIST.
18 Let no one keep defrauding
you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of
the angels,
taking
his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause
by his fleshly mind,
19 and not holding fast to THE HEAD, from
whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments,
grows with a growth which is from GOD.”
“If you have died with CHRIST to
the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in
the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as,
21 “Do not handle, do not taste, do
not touch!”
22 (which all refer to things
destined to perish with use)—in accordance with the commandments and
teachings of men?
23 These are matters which have, to
be sure, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement
and severe treatment of the body, but are of no value
against fleshly indulgence.”
