^{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

^{21 Ref} Which say there may be no touching, tasting, or taking in your hands,

^{22 Ref} (Rules which are all to come to an end with their use) after the orders and teaching of men?

^{23 Ref} 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.