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,