16. So let no one make rules about what you eat or drink or about holy days or the New Moon Festival or the Sabbath.
17. All such things are only a shadow of things in the future; the reality is Christ.
18. Do not allow yourselves to be condemned by anyone who claims to be superior because of special visions and who insists on false humility and the worship of angels. For no reason at all, such people are all puffed up by their human way of thinking
19. and have stopped holding on to Christ, who is the head of the body. Under Christ's control the whole body is nourished and held together by its joints and ligaments, and it grows as God wants it to grow.
20. You have died with Christ and are set free from the ruling spirits of the universe. Why, then, do you live as though you belonged to this world? Why do you obey such rules as
21. “Don't handle this,” “Don't taste that,” “Don't touch the other”?