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For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths:

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For these are an image of the things which are to come but the body is Christ's.

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Let no man take your reward from you by consciously making little of himself and giving worship to angels having his thoughts fixed on the things which he has seen, being foolishly lifted up in his natural mind,

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And not joined to the Head, from whom all the body, being given strength and kept together through its joins and bands, has its growth with the increase of God.

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If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders

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Which say there may be no touching, tasting, or taking in your hands,

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(Rules which are all to come to an end with their use) after the orders and teaching of men?

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These things seem to have a sort of wisdom in self-ordered worship and making little of oneself, and being cruel to the body, not honouring it by giving it its natural use.