Colossians 2:16
Let none therefore judge you in meat or in drink, or in matter of feast, or new moon, or sabbaths,
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
17which are a shadow of things to come; but the body [is] of Christ.
Cross References
Leviticus 11:2Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the animals which ye shall eat of all the beasts which are on the earth.
Leviticus 17:10And every one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, that eateth any manner of blood, I will set my face against the soul that hath eaten blood, and will cut him off from among his people;
Numbers 10:10And in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in your new moons, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt-offerings and over your sacrifices of peace-offering; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God: I am Jehovah your God.
Deuteronomy 14:3Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
1 Samuel 20:5And David said to Jonathan, Behold, to-morrow is new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat; but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field until the third evening.
2 Kings 4:23And he said, Why wilt thou go to him to-day? It is neither new moon nor sabbath. And she said, [It is] 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 →