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Let No One Disqualify You

¹⁶ Therefore let no one ^{A)" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">}pass judgment on you ^{B)" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">}in questions of food and drink, or with regard to ^{C)" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">}a festival or ^{D)" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">}a new moon or a Sabbath. ^{17 E)" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">}These are a shadow of the things to come, but ^{F)" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">}the substance belongs to Christ. ¹⁸ Let no one ^{G)" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">}disqualify you, ^{H)" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">}insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, ^{I)" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">}going on in detail about visions,^{a]" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">J)" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">}puffed up without reason by ^{K)" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">}his sensuous mind, ¹⁹ and ^{L)" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">}not ^{M)" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">}holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.

²⁰ If with Christ ^{N)" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">}you died to the ^{O)" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">}elemental spirits of the world, ^{P)" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">}why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations— ^{21 Q)" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">}“Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch” ²² (^{R)" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">}referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to ^{S)" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">}human precepts and teachings? ²³ These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in ^{T)" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">}promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are ^{U)" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">}of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.