12aburied with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through bfaith in the working of God, cwho raised Him from the dead.
13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,
14ahaving wiped out the1 handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
15aHaving disarmed bprincipalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
16 So let no one ajudge you in food or in drink, or regarding a1 festival or a new moon or sabbaths,
17awhich are a shadow of things to come, but the1 substance is of Christ.
18 Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has1 not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
19 and not holding fast to athe Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, bgrows with the increase thatis from God.
20 Therefore, if you adied with Christ from the basic principles of the world, bwhy, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations—
22 which all concern things which perish with the using—aaccording to the commandments and doctrines of men?
23aThese things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and1 neglect of the body, butare of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.
Colossians 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of the ordinances. "The bond" (Revised Version). That is, the written law of ordinances; the law of Jewish rites. This was "blotted out", erased, removed. Which was contrary to us. "Against us" (Revised Version). Especially in the sense that they made Gentiles aliens and strangers to the covenant, and without God and hope. Nailing it to his cross. When the Jews nailed Jesus to the cross they drove the nails into their own law. The old dispensation was ended; the blood of the new covenant was shed from the wounds of the nails.
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