Colossians 2:21 KJV — MannaFest

Colossians 2:21

(Touch not; taste not; handle not;

KJV

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ASV

Handle not, nor taste, nor touch

YLT

--thou mayest not touch, nor taste, nor handle--

WEB

“Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”?

DBT

Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch,

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Colossians — Christ is preeminent — creator and sustainer, the head of the body, the reconciler of all things. Against every philosophy and empty deceit, the full sufficiency of Christ.

Author: Paul, with Timothy (1:1)
Date: c. AD 60–62, from Roman imprisonment

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1 Timothy 4:8
For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
1 Timothy 4:3
Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
Genesis 9:3
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Isaiah 52:11
Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord.
Genesis 3:3
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

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2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; 3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

There is an ascending climax of superstitious prohibitions. The first Greek word (hapse) is distinguished from the third (thiges), in that the former means close contact and retention: the latter, momentary contact (compare 1Co 7:1; Joh 20:17, Greek, "Hold me not"; cling not to me").

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Christians are freed by Christ from the ritual observances of Moses's law, and delivered from that yoke of bondage which God himself had laid upon them. Subjection to ordinances, or human appointments in the worship of God, is highly blamable, and contrary to the freedom and liberty of the gospel.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

COL 2:212CO 6:17 ISA 52:11
COL 2:212CO 6:17 REV 18:4
COL 2:212CO 6:17 2CO 7:1
COL 2:21ISA 52:11 2CO 6:17
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
COL 2:212CO 6:17 PSA 1:1-3
COL 2:212CO 6:17 NUM 16:26
COL 2:211TI 4:3 1TI 4:4
COL 2:211TI 4:3 HEB 13:4

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