15 When he[a] had disarmed the rulers and the authorities, he made a display of them in public, triumphing over them by it.[b]

Do Not Be Judged by Human Religious Rules

16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you with reference to eating or[c] drinking or participation in a feast or a new moon or a Sabbath, 17 which are a shadow of what is to come, but the reality is Christ.

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 2:15 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had disarmed”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Colossians 2:15 Or “in him”
  3. Colossians 2:16 Some manuscripts have “and”