Colossians 2:16-18

Let No One Disqualify You

¹⁶ Therefore let no one _g pass judgment on you _h in questions of food and drink, or with regard to _i a festival or _j a new moon or a Sabbath. ¹⁷ _k These are a shadow of the things to come, but _l the substance belongs to Christ. ¹⁸ Let no one _m disqualify you, _n insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, _o going on in detail about visions, _{1 p} puffed up without reason by _q his sensuous mind,

1. Cross References
   Romans 14:3
   Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him.
   Romans 14:10
   Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.
   Romans 14:13
   Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
   
2. Cross References
   Romans 14:17
   For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
   Hebrews 9:10
   But deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.
   Leviticus 11:2
   Speak to the people of Israel, saying, These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.
   
3. Cross References
   Leviticus 23:2
   Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, These are the appointed feasts of the Lord that you shall proclaim as holy convocations; they are my appointed feasts.
   Romans 14:5
   One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.
   
4. Cross References
   Mark 2:28
   So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.
   Numbers 28:11
   At the beginnings of your months, you shall offer a burnt offering to the Lord : two bulls from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish.
   
5. Cross References
   Hebrews 8:5
   They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, "See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.
   Hebrews 10:1
   For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.
   
6. Cross References
   Colossians 2:2
   That their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ.
   
7. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 9:24
   Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.
   
8. Cross References
   Colossians 2:23
   These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.
   
9. Cross References
   Ezekiel 13:7
   Have you not seen a false vision and uttered a lying divination, whenever you have said, 'Declares the Lord,' although I have not spoken?
   1 Timothy 1:7
   Desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions.
   
10. Cross References
    Ephesians 4:17
    Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.
    
11. Cross References
    Romans 8:7
    For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.