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20 If you have died with Christ and have escaped from the world's rudimentary notions, why, as though your life still belonged to the world, do you submit to such precepts as 21 "Do not handle this;" "Do not taste that;" "Do not touch that other thing" -- 22 referring to things which are all intended to be used up and perish--in obedience to mere human injunctions and teachings? 23 These rules have indeed an appearance of wisdom where self-imposed worship exists, and an affectation of humility and an ascetic severity. But not one of them is of any value in combating the indulgence of our lower natures. Colossians 2:20-23, Weymouth New Testament. Public domain.
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