14. by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.
15. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.
16. Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.
17. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
18. Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind,
19. and not 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 you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations—
21. “Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch”