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18 Do not let anyone disqualify you, insisting on self-abasement and worship of angels, dwelling[a] on visions,[b] puffed up without cause by a human way of thinking,[c] 19 and not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.

Warnings against False Teachers

20 If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the universe,[d] why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations,

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 2:18 Other ancient authorities read not dwelling
  2. Colossians 2:18 Meaning of Gk uncertain
  3. Colossians 2:18 Gk by the mind of his flesh
  4. Colossians 2:20 Or the rudiments of the world

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