Colossians 2:16
Let not any man therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
17which are a shadow of the things coming, but the body is Christ's.
Cross References
Leviticus 11:2Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, These are the living things which ye may eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.
Leviticus 17:10And whatever man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, who eats any manner of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
Numbers 10:10Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow the trumpets over your burnt-offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace-offerings. And they shall be to you for a m
Deuteronomy 14:3Thou shall not eat any abominable thing.
1 Samuel 20:5And David said to Jonathan, Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king to eat. But let me go that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening.
2 Kings 4:23And he said, Why will thou go to him today? It is neither new moon nor Sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.
Matthew Henry on Colossians 2:14-16
The Glory of the Christian Economy. ( a. d. 62.) 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 show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. The apostle here represents the privileges we Christians have above… Read the whole commentary →