Colossians 2:21

Touch not: taste not: handle not. Touch not, etc... The meaning is, that Christians should not subject themselves, either to the ordinances of the old law, forbidding touching or tasting things unclean; or to the superstitious invention of heretics, imposing such restraints, under pretence of wisdom, humility, or mortification.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

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(Touch not; taste not; handle not;

In Context

20If then you be dead with Christ from the elements of this world, why do you yet decree as though living in the world?

22Which all are unto destruction by the very use, according to the precepts and doctrines of men.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:3But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of paradise, God hath commanded us that we should not eat; and that we should not touch it, lest perhaps we die.

2 Corinthians 6:17Wherefore: Go out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing:

Matthew Henry on Colossians 2:17-23

The Glory of the Christian Economy. ( a. d. 62.) 16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. 18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment… Read the whole commentary →

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