Colossians 2:18-23 (New Revised Standard)
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Do not let anyone disqualify you, insisting on self-abasement and worship of angels, dwelling a on visions, b puffed up without cause by a human way of thinking, c
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and not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.
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If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the universe, d why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations,
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"Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch"?
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All these regulations refer to things that perish with use; they are simply human commands and teachings.
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These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-imposed piety, humility, and severe treatment of the body, but they are of no value in checking self-indulgence. e
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (New Revised Standard Bible Version Online)
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