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Andyou,beingdeadin your sinsand the uncircumcision of yourflesh, hath he quickened togetherwithhim, having forgivenyoualltrespasses;
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Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was againstus,whichwascontrary to us,andtookit out of the way,nailingit to his cross;
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And having spoiledprincipalitiesandpowers, he made a shew of themopenly*, triumphing overtheminit.[a]
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Letnomanthereforejudgeyouinmeat,[b]orindrink,orinrespect of an holyday,or of the new moon,or of the sabbath days:
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Whichare a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
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Let no manbeguile[c]you of your rewardin a voluntaryhumilityandworshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hathnotseen, vainly puffed upbyhisfleshlymind,
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Andnotholding the Head,fromwhichall the bodybyjointsandbands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
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Whereforeif ye be deadwithChristfrom the rudiments[d] of the world,why, as thoughlivingin the world, are ye subject to ordinances,