2:16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you with respect to food or drink, or in the matter of a feast, new moon, or Sabbath days – 2:17 these are only 1 the shadow of the things to come, but the reality 2 is Christ! 3 2:18 Let no one who delights in humility and the worship of angels pass judgment on you. That person goes on at great lengths 4 about what he has supposedly seen, but he is puffed up with empty notions by his fleshly mind. 5 2:19 He has not held fast 6 to the head from whom the whole body, supported 7 and knit together through its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God. 8
2:20 If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits 9 of the world, why do you submit to them as though you lived in the world? 2:21 “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!” 2:22 These are all destined to perish with use, founded as they are 10 on human commands and teachings. 11