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He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/colossians/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross; <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/colossians/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>having disarmed the rulers and authorities, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/colossians/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Therefore do not let anyone judge you about food and drink, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day, <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/colossians/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/colossians/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/colossians/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God's growth.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/colossians/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>If you died with Christ from the elementary principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances, <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/colossians/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>"Do not handle, nor taste, nor touch" <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/colossians/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>(all of which perish with use), according to human commandments and teachings? <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/colossians/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but are not of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.<p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><a href="//nheb.net/">New Heart English Bible</a><br />Edited by Wayne A. 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