14. having blotted out the certificate of debt against us – by the dogmas – which stood against us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the stake.
15. Having stripped the principalities and the authorities, He made a public display of them, having prevailed over them in it.
16. Let no one therefore judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths –
17. which are a shadow of what is to come – but the Body of the Messiah.
18. Let no one deprive you of the prize, one who takes delight in false humility and worship of messengers, taking his stand on what he has not seen, puffed up by his fleshly mind,
19. and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the Body – nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments – grows with the growth of Elohim.
20. If, then, you died with Messiah from the elementary matters of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations:
21. “Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle” –
22. which are all to perish with use – according to the commands and teachings of men?
23. These indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed worship, humiliation and harsh treatment of the body – of no value at all, only for satisfaction of the flesh.