Colossians 2:13-20 (Epistle)
- 13
- And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,
- 14
- having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
- 15
- Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
- 16
- So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths,
- 17
- which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.
- 18
- Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
- 19
- and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God.
- 20
- Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations –