New American Standard Bible 1995

Colossians 2:16-23

16Therefore no one is to 1 2act as your judge in regard to 3food or 4drink or in respect to a 5festival or a 6new moon or a 7Sabbath 8day-- 17things which are 9a mere shadow of what is to come; but the 10substance 11belongs to Christ. 18Let no one keep 12 13defrauding you of your prize by 14delighting in 15self-abasement and the worship of the angels, 16taking his stand on visions he has seen, 17 18inflated without cause by his 19fleshly mind, 19and not holding fast to 20the head, from whom 21the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and 22ligaments, grows with a growth 23which is from God.

20 24If you have died with Christ 25to the 26elementary principles of the world, 27why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to 28decrees, such as, 21“Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!” 22(which all refer 29to things destined to perish 30with use)--in accordance with the 31commandments and teachings of men? 23These are matters which have, to be sure, the 32appearance of wisdom in 33 34self-made religion and self-abasement and 35severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against 36fleshly indulgence.

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Notes

1. Colossians 2:16 Lit judge you ↩
2. Colossians 2:16 Rom 14:3 ↩
3. Colossians 2:16 Mark 7:19; Rom 14:17; Heb 9:10 ↩
4. Colossians 2:16 Mark 7:19; Rom 14:17; Heb 9:10 ↩
5. Colossians 2:16 Lev 23:2; Rom 14:5 ↩
6. Colossians 2:16 1 Chr 23:31; 2 Chr 31:3; Neh 10:33 ↩
7. Colossians 2:16 Mark 2:27f; Gal 4:10 ↩
8. Colossians 2:16 Or days ↩
9. Colossians 2:17 Heb 8:5; 10:1 ↩
10. Colossians 2:17 Lit body ↩
11. Colossians 2:17 Lit of Christ ↩
12. Colossians 2:18 Or deciding against you ↩
13. Colossians 2:18 1 Cor 9:24; Phil 3:14 ↩
14. Colossians 2:18 Col 2:23 ↩
15. Colossians 2:18 Or humility ↩
16. Colossians 2:18 Or going into detail about ↩
17. Colossians 2:18 Or conceited ↩
18. Colossians 2:18 1 Cor 4:6 ↩
19. Colossians 2:18 Rom 8:7 ↩
20. Colossians 2:19 Eph 1:22 ↩
21. Colossians 2:19 Eph 1:23; 4:16 ↩
22. Colossians 2:19 Lit bonds ↩
23. Colossians 2:19 Lit of God ↩
24. Colossians 2:20 Rom 6:2 ↩
25. Colossians 2:20 Lit from ↩
26. Colossians 2:20 Col 2:8 ↩
27. Colossians 2:20 Gal 4:9 ↩
28. Colossians 2:20 Col 2:14, 16 ↩
29. Colossians 2:22 1 Cor 6:13 ↩
30. Colossians 2:22 Or by being consumed ↩
31. Colossians 2:22 Is 29:13; Matt 15:9; Titus 1:14 ↩
32. Colossians 2:23 Lit report; Gr logos ↩
33. Colossians 2:23 Or would-be religion ↩
34. Colossians 2:23 Col 2:18 ↩
35. Colossians 2:23 1 Tim 4:3 ↩
36. Colossians 2:23 Rom 13:14; 1 Tim 4:8 ↩

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