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20 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,
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Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules:
21 "Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!"
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“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?
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These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings.
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.
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Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.
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