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

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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