Colossians 2:17 BSB

Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἅ	ha	which	G3739 →
ἐστιν	estin	are	G1510 →
σκιὰ	skia	a shadow	G4639 →
τῶν	tōn	of the [things]	G3588 →
μελλόντων,	mellontōn	coming,	G3195 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
σῶμα	sōma	body [is]	G4983 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
Χριστοῦ.	Christou	of Christ.	G5547 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

G4983somabody [is]142×

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
John 1:17
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
leads to
- John 14:6
  Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
- Romans 6:14
  For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
- Romans 3:19–26
  Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
- Romans 5:20–21
  The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
- John 1:14
  The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Through
Hebrews 8:5
The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you…
leads to
- Exodus 25:40
  See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
- Hebrews 10:1
  For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near…
- Exodus 26:30
  So you are to set up the tabernacle according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

John 14:6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.Hebrews 10:1For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.Hebrews 8:5The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”John 1:17For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.Hebrews 9:9It is an illustration for the present time, because the gifts and sacrifices being offered were unable to cleanse the conscience of the worshiper.1 Corinthians 10:4and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.Romans 10:4For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.Hebrews 4:1–11Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be deemed to have fallen short of it.Matthew 11:28–29Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.Galatians 3:24So the law became our guardian to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.2 Corinthians 3:13We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at the end of what was fading away.Hebrews 9:23So it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.Song of Solomon 2:9My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.

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