Colossians 2:18-22
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
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)
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