Be careful that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit based on human tradition, based on the elements of the world, rather than Christ.
Let no one condemn you by delighting in ascetic practices and the worship of angels, claiming access to a visionary realm. Such a person is inflated by empty notions of his unspiritual mind.
‘ “Since they have led my people astray by saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and since when a flimsy wall is being built, they plaster it with whitewash,