20. If, then, you died with Messiah from the elementary matters 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 are all to perish with use – according to the commands and teachings of men?
23. These indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed worship, humiliation and harsh treatment of the body – of no value at all, only for satisfaction of the flesh.