14 having destroyed the certificate of indebtedness in ordinances against us, which was hostile to us, and removed it out of the way by[a] nailing it to the cross. 15 When he[b] had disarmed the rulers and the authorities, he made a display of them in public, triumphing over them by it.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 2:14 Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“nailing”) which is understood as means
  2. Colossians 2:15 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had disarmed”) which is understood as temporal
  3. Colossians 2:15 Or “in him”