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2:10
And you have been made complete in Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.
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In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands.
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And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.
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When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,
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having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!
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And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
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Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.
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These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.
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Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up without basis by his unspiritual mind.
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He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.
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If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:
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“Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”?
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These will all perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings.
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Such restrictions indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-prescribed worship, their false humility, and their harsh treatment of the body; but they are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.