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?