Colossians 2:17-23
2:17 these are only
the shadow of the things to come, but the reality
is Christ!
2:18 Let no one who delights in humility and the worship of angels pass judgment on you. That person goes on at great lengths
about what he has supposedly seen, but he is puffed up with empty notions by his fleshly mind.
2:19 He has not held fast
to the head from whom the whole body, supported
and knit together through its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.
2:20 If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit to them as though you lived in the world?
2:21 “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”
2:22 These are all destined to perish with use, founded as they are on human commands and teachings.
2:23 Even though they have the appearance of wisdom with their self-imposed worship and false humility achieved by an unsparing treatment of the body – a wisdom with no true value – they in reality result in fleshly indulgence.