^{10 Ref} And you are complete in him, who is the head of all rule and authority:

^{11 Ref} In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

^{12 Ref} Having been put to death with him in baptism, by which you came to life again with him, through faith in the working of God, who made him come back from the dead.

^{13 Ref} And you, being dead through your sins and the evil condition of your flesh, to you, I say, he gave life together with him, and forgiveness of all our sins;

^{14 Ref} Having put an end to the handwriting of the law which was against us, taking it out of the way by nailing it to his cross;

^{15 Ref} Having made himself free from the rule of authorities and powers, he put them openly to shame, glorying over them in it.

^{16 Ref} For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths:

^{17 Ref} For these are an image of the things which are to come; but the body is Christ's.