Colossians 2:18-23 Nor let anyone disqualify you, taking pleasure in a subservience and devotion to the angels, ‘taking possession’ of things that he has not seen, being puffed up by his carnal mind to no useful purpose,

WPNT⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁸ Nor let anyone disqualify you, taking pleasure in a subservience and devotion to the angels, ‘taking possession’ of things that he has not seen, being puffed up by his carnal mind to no useful purpose, ¹⁹ and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, supported and held together by its joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God. ²⁰ Now then, since you died with Christ away from the basic principles of the world, why, as though still living in it, are you subjecting yourselves to regulations ²¹ —Don’t handle! Don’t taste! Don’t touch!— ²² (all of which result in corruption through overuse) according to the commands and teachings of men? ²³ Such things do indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and subservience and asceticism, but are not of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.