Colossians 2:18-20

Holman Christian Standard Bible

¹⁸ Let no one disqualify you,^[a](A) insisting on ascetic practices^(B) and the worship of angels, claiming access to a visionary realm and inflated^(C) without cause by his unspiritual^[b] mind. ¹⁹ He doesn’t hold on to the head, from whom the whole body,^(D) nourished and held together by its ligaments and tendons, develops with growth from God.

²⁰ If you died with the Messiah^(E) to the elemental forces of this world, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations: