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18 Let no one who delights in humility and the worship of angels cheat you out of the prize by rejoicing about what he has seen.[a] Such a person is puffed up for no reason by his carnal mind. 19 He does not hold on to the head, from whom the whole body, which is nourished and held together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God enables it.

The New Life in the Messiah

20 If you have died with the Messiah[b] to the basic principles of the world,[c] why are you submitting to its decrees as though you still lived in the world?

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 2:18 Other mss. read what he has not seen
  2. Colossians 2:20 Or Christ
  3. Colossians 2:20 Or the elemental spirits of the universe