15 ^aHaving disarmed ^bprincipalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.  ‡

16 So let no one ^ajudge you in food or in drink, or regarding a¹ festival or a new moon or sabbaths,  ‡

17 ^awhich are a shadow of things to come, but the¹ substance is of Christ.  ‡

18 Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has¹ not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,  ‡

19 and not holding fast to ^athe Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, ^bgrows with the increase that is from God.  ‡

20 Therefore, if you ^adied with Christ from the basic principles of the world, ^bwhy, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations— ‡

21 ^a“Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,”  ‡

22 which all concern things which perish with the using—^aaccording to the commandments and doctrines of men?  ‡

23 ^aThese things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and¹ neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh. ‡