Colossians 2:9-23

New King James Version

⁹For ^(A)in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead ^[a]bodily; ¹⁰and you are complete in Him, who is the ^(B)head of all ^[b]principality and power.

Not Legalism but Christ

¹¹In Him you were also ^(C)circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by ^(D)putting off the body ^[c]of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, ¹²^(E)buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through ^(F)faith in the working of God, ^(G)who raised Him from the dead. ¹³And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, ¹⁴^(H)having wiped out the ^[d]handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. ¹⁵^(I)Having disarmed ^(J)principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.

¹⁶So let no one ^(K)judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a ^[e]festival or a new moon or sabbaths, ¹⁷^(L)which are a shadow of things to come, but the ^[f]substance is of Christ. ¹⁸Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has ^[g]not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, ¹⁹and not holding fast to ^(M)the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, ^(N)grows with the increase that is from God.

²⁰^[h]Therefore, if you ^(O)died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, ^(P)why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations— ²¹^(Q)“Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,” ²²which all concern things which perish with the using—^(R)according to the commandments and doctrines of men? ²³^(S)These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and ^[i]neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.