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.