Study Desk

Therefore, no one is to ^(F1)(C1)act as your judge in regard to ^(C2)food and ^(C2)drink, or in respect to a ^(C3)festival or a ^(C4)new moon, or a ^(C5)Sabbath ^(F2)day—

things which are only a ^(C1)shadow of what is to come; but the ^(F1)substance ^(F2)belongs to Christ.

Take care that no one keeps ^(F1)(C1)defrauding you of your prize by ^(C2)delighting in humility and the worship of the angels, ^(F2)taking his stand on visions he has seen, ^(F3)(C3)inflated without cause by his ^(C4)fleshly mind,

and not holding firmly to ^(C1)the head, from whom ^(C2)the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ^(F1)ligaments, grows with a growth ^(F2)which is from God.

^(C1)If you have died with Christ ^(F1)to the ^(C2)elementary principles of the world, ^(C3)why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to ^(C4)decrees, such as,

"Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!"

(which all refer ^(C1)to things destined to perish ^(F1)with use)—in accordance with the ^(C2)commandments and teachings of man?

These are matters which do have the ^(F1)appearance of wisdom in ^(F2)(C1)self-made religion and humility and ^(C2)severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against ^(C3)fleshly indulgence.