²³ 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.

¹⁸ 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,

⁸ For the training of the body is of profit for a little, but religion is of profit in every way, giving hope for the life which now is, and for that which is to come.

³ Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.

⁵ For God sees that on the day when you take of its fruit, your eyes will be open, and you will be as gods, having knowledge of good and evil.

⁶ And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.

²⁷ A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you are like the resting-places of the dead, which are made white, and seem beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all unclean things.

²⁸ Even so you seem to men to be full of righteousness, but inside you are all false and full of wrongdoing.

¹³ For such men are false Apostles, workers of deceit, making themselves seem like Apostles of Christ.

¹⁴ And it is no wonder; for even Satan himself is able to take the form of an angel of light.

¹⁵ So it is no great thing if his servants make themselves seem to be servants of righteousness; whose end will be the reward of their works.

²⁹ For no man ever had hate for his flesh; but he gives it food and takes care of it, even as Christ does for the church;

⁸ Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:

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