<p>2:18 <i>Let no one rob you of your prize by a false humility and worshiping of the angels, keeping on about all the things which he has supposedly seen in visions, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind</i>- If we let ourselves act against our conscience, we are <em>now </em>condemned (Rom. 14:23). If we judge another, &quot;thou condemnest present tense thyself&quot; (Rom. 2:1). We must not let false teachers &quot;judge against you&quot; (Col. 2:18 AVmg.) in the sense that by following them we can let them as it were pass the verdict of condemnation upon us, here and now.</p><p>Seeking to cut off the flesh by steel willed obedience to laws is in fact fleshly. Likewise in 2:23 Paul argues that obedience to laws isn't any benefit in cutting off the flesh; this is done by God in Christ through our baptism into Him and being counted as Him.</p>