12. being buried with him in the baptism, in which also ye rose with [him] through the faith of the working of God, who did raise him out of the dead.
13. And you--being dead in the trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh--He made alive together with him, having forgiven you all the trespasses,
14. having blotted out the handwriting in the ordinances that is against us, that was contrary to us, and he hath taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;
15. having stripped the principalities and the authorities, he made a shew of them openly--having triumphed over them in it.
16. Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,
17. which are a shadow of the coming things, and the body [is] of the Christ;
18. let no one beguile you of your prize, delighting in humble-mindedness and [in] worship of the messengers, intruding into the things he hath not seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,
19. and not holding the head, from which all the body--through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit together--may increase with the increase of God.
20. If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?