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15 Having stripped[a] the rulers and the authorities, He exposed them in public, having celebrated-a-triumph-over[b] them in Him[c]!

Let No One Judge Your Behavior By False Standards

16 Therefore let no one judge you in eating and in drinking, or in respect to a feast or new-moon or Sabbath, 17 which are a shadow of the coming things, but the body[d] is Christ’s.

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 2:15 Or, disarmed, spoiled. That is, having stripped away their power; or, having stripped these beings away from Himself.
  2. Colossians 2:15 Or, led them as captives in a triumphant procession.
  3. Colossians 2:15 Or, in it, by it (the cross).
  4. Colossians 2:17 That is, the substance or reality casting the shadow belongs to Christ. Or, and the body [of Christ] is Christ’s [to judge].

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