Colossians 2:13-20
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
13 And when you were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God[a] made you[b] alive together with him, when he forgave us all our trespasses, 14 erasing the record that stood against us with its legal demands. He set this aside, nailing it to the cross. 15 He disarmed[c] the rulers and authorities and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in it.
16 Therefore do not let anyone condemn you in matters of food and drink or of observing festivals, new moons, or sabbaths. 17 These are only a shadow of what is to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. 18 Do not let anyone disqualify you, insisting on self-abasement and worship of angels, dwelling[d] on visions,[e] puffed up without cause by a human way of thinking,[f] 19 and not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.
Warnings against False Teachers
20 If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the universe,[g] why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations,
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- Colossians 2:13 Gk he
- Colossians 2:13 Other ancient authorities read made us; others, made
- Colossians 2:15 Or divested himself of
- Colossians 2:18 Other ancient authorities read not dwelling
- Colossians 2:18 Meaning of Gk uncertain
- Colossians 2:18 Gk by the mind of his flesh
- Colossians 2:20 Or the rudiments of the world
Colossians 2:13-20
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
13 And when you were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God[a] made you[b] alive together with him, when he forgave us all our trespasses, 14 erasing the record that stood against us with its legal demands. He set this aside, nailing it to the cross. 15 He disarmed[c] the rulers and authorities and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in it.
16 Therefore do not let anyone condemn you in matters of food and drink or of observing festivals, new moons, or sabbaths. 17 These are only a shadow of what is to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. 18 Do not let anyone disqualify you, insisting on self-abasement and worship of angels, dwelling[d] on visions,[e] puffed up without cause by a human way of thinking,[f] 19 and not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.
Warnings against False Teachers
20 If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the universe,[g] why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations,
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Colossians 2:13 Gk he
- Colossians 2:13 Other ancient authorities read made us; others, made
- Colossians 2:15 Or divested himself of
- Colossians 2:18 Other ancient authorities read not dwelling
- Colossians 2:18 Meaning of Gk uncertain
- Colossians 2:18 Gk by the mind of his flesh
- Colossians 2:20 Or the rudiments of the world
Colossians 2:13-20
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
13 And when you were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God[a] made you[b] alive together with him, when he forgave us all our trespasses, 14 erasing the record that stood against us with its legal demands. He set this aside, nailing it to the cross. 15 He disarmed[c] the rulers and authorities and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in it.
16 Therefore do not let anyone condemn you in matters of food and drink or of observing festivals, new moons, or sabbaths. 17 These are only a shadow of what is to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. 18 Do not let anyone disqualify you, insisting on self-abasement and worship of angels, dwelling[d] on visions,[e] puffed up without cause by a human way of thinking,[f] 19 and not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.
Warnings against False Teachers
20 If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the universe,[g] why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations,
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Colossians 2:13 Gk he
- Colossians 2:13 Other ancient authorities read made us; others, made
- Colossians 2:15 Or divested himself of
- Colossians 2:18 Other ancient authorities read not dwelling
- Colossians 2:18 Meaning of Gk uncertain
- Colossians 2:18 Gk by the mind of his flesh
- Colossians 2:20 Or the rudiments of the world
Colossians 2:13-20
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
13 And when you were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God[a] made you[b] alive together with him, when he forgave us all our trespasses, 14 erasing the record that stood against us with its legal demands. He set this aside, nailing it to the cross. 15 He disarmed[c] the rulers and authorities and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in it.
16 Therefore do not let anyone condemn you in matters of food and drink or of observing festivals, new moons, or sabbaths. 17 These are only a shadow of what is to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. 18 Do not let anyone disqualify you, insisting on self-abasement and worship of angels, dwelling[d] on visions,[e] puffed up without cause by a human way of thinking,[f] 19 and not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.
Warnings against False Teachers
20 If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the universe,[g] why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations,
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Colossians 2:13 Gk he
- Colossians 2:13 Other ancient authorities read made us; others, made
- Colossians 2:15 Or divested himself of
- Colossians 2:18 Other ancient authorities read not dwelling
- Colossians 2:18 Meaning of Gk uncertain
- Colossians 2:18 Gk by the mind of his flesh
- Colossians 2:20 Or the rudiments of the world
Colossians 2:13-20
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
13 And when you were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God[a] made you[b] alive together with him, when he forgave us all our trespasses, 14 erasing the record that stood against us with its legal demands. He set this aside, nailing it to the cross. 15 He disarmed[c] the rulers and authorities and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in it.
16 Therefore do not let anyone condemn you in matters of food and drink or of observing festivals, new moons, or sabbaths. 17 These are only a shadow of what is to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. 18 Do not let anyone disqualify you, insisting on self-abasement and worship of angels, dwelling[d] on visions,[e] puffed up without cause by a human way of thinking,[f] 19 and not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.
Warnings against False Teachers
20 If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the universe,[g] why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations,
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Colossians 2:13 Gk he
- Colossians 2:13 Other ancient authorities read made us; others, made
- Colossians 2:15 Or divested himself of
- Colossians 2:18 Other ancient authorities read not dwelling
- Colossians 2:18 Meaning of Gk uncertain
- Colossians 2:18 Gk by the mind of his flesh
- Colossians 2:20 Or the rudiments of the world
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