KJV King James Version
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;
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Colossians 2:14
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;
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!
WEB World English Bible
wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;
ASV American Standard Version
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;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
having blotted out the handwriting in the ordinances that is against us, that was contrary to us, and he hath taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;
Surrounding context — Colossians 2
11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with [him] through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
14 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;
15 [And] having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath [days]:
17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body [is] of Christ.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ἐξαλείψαςG1813 · exaleiphōto blot outτὸG3588 · hothe/this/whoκαθ᾽G2596 · kataaccording toἡμῶνG3165 · memeχειρόγραφονG5498 · cheirographoswriten recordτοῖςG3588 · hothe/this/whoδόγμασινG1378 · dogmadecreeὃG3739 · hos, hēwhichἦνG1510 · eimito beὑπεναντίονG5227 · hupenantiosopposedἡμῖν,G3165 · memeκαὶG2532 · kaiandαὐτὸG846 · autosit/s/heἦρκενG142 · airōto take upἐκG1537 · ekout fromτοῦG3588 · hothe/this/whoμέσουG3319 · mesosmidstπροσηλώσαςG4338 · prosēloōto nailαὐτὸG846 · autosit/s/heτῷG3588 · hothe/this/whoσταυρῷ·G4716 · stauroscross
Cross-references
Isaiah 44:22I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.Ephesians 2:14-16For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition [between us];Isaiah 43:25I, [even] I, [am] he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.Hebrews 8:13In that he saith, A new [covenant], he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old [is] ready to vanish away.1 Peter 2:24Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.Hebrews 7:18For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.Colossians 2:20Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,Hebrews 10:8-9Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and [offering] for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure [therein]; which are offered by the law;Hebrews 9:9-10Which [was] a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;Acts 3:19Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;Isaiah 57:14And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.Galatians 4:1-4Now I say, [That] the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;Psalm 51:1To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.Psalm 51:9Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.Luke 1:6And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.Numbers 5:23And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot [them] out with the bitter water:2 Thessalonians 2:7For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth [will let], until he be taken out of the way.Esther 3:12Then were the king’s scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king’s lieutenants, and to the governors that [were] over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and [to] every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king’s ring.
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