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What does Colossians 2:17 mean?

"which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s."

— Colossians 2:17 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

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having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

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Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

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which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.

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Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

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and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.

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If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

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