⁴ So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law^(A) through the body of Christ,^(B) that you might belong to another,^(C) to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.

¹³ For if you live according to the flesh, you will die;^(A) but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body,^(B) you will live.^(C)

¹⁹ “For through the law I died to the law^(A) so that I might live for God.^(B)

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ^(A) and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.^(B) The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God,^(C) who loved me^(D) and gave himself for me.^(E)

²⁴ Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh^(A) with its passions and desires.^(B)

¹⁴ May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,^(A) through which^[a] the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.^(B)

¹¹ In him you were also circumcised^(A) with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh^[a](B) was put off when you were circumcised by^[b] Christ, ¹² having been buried with him in baptism,^(C) in which you were also raised with him^(D) through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.^(E)

¹³ When you were dead in your sins^(F) and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you^[c] alive^(G) with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,^{(H) 14} having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness,^(I) which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.^{(J) 15} And having disarmed the powers and authorities,^(K) he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them^(L) by the cross.^[d]

Freedom From Human Rules

¹⁶ Therefore do not let anyone judge you^(M) by what you eat or drink,^(N) or with regard to a religious festival,^(O) a New Moon celebration^(P) or a Sabbath day.^{(Q) 17} These are a shadow of the things that were to come;^(R) the reality, however, is found in Christ. ¹⁸ Do not let anyone who delights in false humility^(S) and the worship of angels disqualify you.^(T) Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind. ¹⁹ They have lost connection with the head,^(U) from whom the whole body,^(V) supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.^(W)

²⁰ Since you died with Christ^(X) to the elemental spiritual forces of this world,^(Y) why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules:^(Z)