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Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a sabbath day:

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which are a shadow of the things to come but the body is Christ's.

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Let no man rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he hath seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

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and not holding fast the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, increasing with the increase of God.

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If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,

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Handle not, nor taste, nor touch

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(all which things are to perish with the using), after the precepts and doctrines of men?

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Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will-worship, and humility, and severity to the body [but are] not of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.