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Colossians 2:14

Colossians chapter 2 · verse 14 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

Context

v.13And you, being dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you, I say, did he make alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses;

v.14This passage

v.15having despoiled the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Daniel 5:7

    The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spake and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and show me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.

  • Luke 1:6

    And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

  • Ephesians 2:14

    For he is our peace, who made both one, and brake down the middle wall of partition,

  • Isaiah 44:22

    I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.

  • Hebrews 8:13

    In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. But that which is becoming old and waxeth aged is nigh unto vanishing away.

  • Colossians 2:20

    If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,