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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

18 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility(A) and the worship of angels disqualify you.(B) Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind. 19 They have lost connection with the head,(C) from whom the whole body,(D) supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.(E)

20 Since you died with Christ(F) to the elemental spiritual forces of this world,(G) why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules:(H)

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