18 Let no one keep [a](A)defrauding you of your prize by (B)delighting in [b]self-abasement and the worship of the angels, [c]taking his stand on visions he has seen, [d](C)inflated without cause by his (D)fleshly mind, 19 and not holding fast to (E)the head, from whom (F)the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and [e]ligaments, grows with a growth [f]which is from God.

20 (G)If you have died with Christ [g]to the (H)elementary principles of the world, (I)why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to (J)decrees, such as,

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 2:18 Or deciding against you
  2. Colossians 2:18 Or humility
  3. Colossians 2:18 Or going into detail about
  4. Colossians 2:18 Or conceited
  5. Colossians 2:19 Lit bonds
  6. Colossians 2:19 Lit of God
  7. Colossians 2:20 Lit from