^{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.

^{18 Ref} 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,

^{19 Ref} 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.

^{20 Ref} 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