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I'll tell you what I find in my Bible.

You could also consider looking at another portion of your Bible, Romans 14:

"One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God. For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's."

You could also consider looking at another portion of your Bible, Romans 14:

True 'dat. But I also read for context and meaning. The preponderance of evidence weighs heavily that this refers to holidays and extra religious days separate from Gods immutable Commandments. Just like we have the fourth of July or Christmas now. They had declared holidays (sometimes by emperors decree or local religious leaders). Matt 5:17,18 clears this up nicely Think not that I have come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy but to fulfill. For verily I say to you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.. Heaven and earth have not passed away.

"One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind."

You need to understand something. When Catholics or Orthodox quote Paul's "antinomian" sections they mean that the Torah is now done away with. Only the Torah. Only the one and only ritual/ceremonial system to actually come directly from G-d's anthropmorphic lips. That was done away with.

Now, as for the post-Biblical chrstian ritual/ceremonial system that developed hundreds of years after Paul's death, that was never intended to be condemned by Paul (after all, he had no idea such a thing would ever come into being).

Most Protestants believe that "doing away with the law" simply means that one is "saved by grace" apart from any ritual or ceremonial. Catholics and Orthodox say it means the G-d-spoken Torah was meant to be done away with and replaced by a post-Biblical ritual and ceremonial that was created piecemeal over the centuries by human churchmen.