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19 and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, fed and united by its joints and bonds, grows in the increase of God.

20 For if ye are dead with the Christ to the elements of the world, why, as though living unto the world, do ye decree rites,

21 touch not; taste not; handle not?

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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!”?

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