16 Let no one therefore judge you in food or in drink or in respect of a feast day or of the new moon or of the sabbath days, 17 which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of the Christ. 18 Let no one govern you according to their own will under pretext of humility and religion of angels, intruding into those things which they have not seen, vainly puffed up by their fleshly mind, 19 and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, fed and united by its joints and bonds, grows in the increase of God.
20 For if ye are dead with the Christ to the elements of the world, why, as though living unto the world, do ye decree rites, 21 touch not; taste not; handle not? 22 Which all perish with the using, because they are the commandments and doctrines of men, 23 which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will worship and humility and neglecting of the body, but they have absolutely no value against the appetites of the flesh.