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 13 the shadow of the things to come, but the reality 14 is Christ! 15 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 16 about what he has supposedly seen, but he is puffed up with empty notions by his fleshly mind. 17 2:19 He has not held fast 18 to the head from whom the whole body, supported 19 and knit together through its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God. 20
2:20 If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits 21 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 22 on human commands and teachings. 23 2:23 Even though they have the appearance of wisdom 24 with their self-imposed worship and false humility 25 achieved by an 26 unsparing treatment of the body – a wisdom with no true value – they in reality result in fleshly indulgence. 27