Colossians 2:6-23
New King James Version (NKJV)

6 As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the
Lord, so walk in Him, 7 rooted and built up in Him and
established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with
thanksgiving.

8 Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and
empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world,
and not according to Christ. 9 For in Him dwells all the fullness
of the Godhead bodily; 10 and you are complete in Him, who
is the head of all principality and power.
Not Legalism but Christ
11 In Him
you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of
the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 buried
with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in
the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.13 And you,
being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together
with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having
wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He
has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 Having
disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in
it.

16 So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or
regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths,17 which are
a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ. 18 Let no
one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of
angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly
mind, 19 and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all
the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the
increase that is from God.

20 Therefore, if you died with Christ from the
basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you
subject yourselves to regulations— 21 “Do not
touch, do not taste, do not handle,”22 which all concern things which
perish with the using—according to the commandments and doctrines of men? 23 These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom
in self-imposed religion, falsehumility, and neglect of the body, but
are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.