11. In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not administered by hand, by stripping off the carnal body, with the circumcision of Christ.
12. You were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.
13. And even when you were dead [in] transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he brought you to life along with him, having forgiven us all our transgressions;
14. obliterating the bond against us, with its legal claims, which was opposed to us, he also removed it from our midst, nailing it to the cross;
15. despoiling the principalities and the powers, he made a public spectacle of them, leading them away in triumph by it.
16. Let no one, then, pass judgment on you in matters of food and drink or with regard to a festival or new moon or sabbath.
17. These are shadows of things to come; the reality belongs to Christ.
18. Let no one disqualify you, delighting in self-abasement and worship of angels, taking his stand on visions, inflated without reason by his fleshly mind,
19. and not holding closely to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and bonds, achieves the growth that comes from God.
20. If you died with Christ to the elemental powers of the world, why do you submit to regulations as if you were still living in the world?
21. “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”
22. These are all things destined to perish with use; they accord with human precepts and teachings.
23. While they have a semblance of wisdom in rigor of devotion and self-abasement [and] severity to the body, they are of no value against gratification of the flesh.