¹⁹ They have lost connection with the head,^(A) from whom the whole body,^(B) supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.^(C)

²⁰ Since you died with Christ^(D) to the elemental spiritual forces of this world,^(E) why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules:^{(F) 21} “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”?