Colossians 2:18-22

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

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

Warnings against False Teachers

²⁰ If with Christ you died to the elemental principles^[c] of the world, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations,^{(B) 21} “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”? ²² All these regulations refer to things that perish with use; they are simply human commands and teachings.^(C)