Colossians 2:21

“Do not handle, nor taste, nor touch,”

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

(Touch not; taste not; handle not;

In Context

20If you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you submit to regulations—

22which things are all for corruption with the using, according to the commands and teaching of men?

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Cross References

2 Corinthians 6:17Therefore 1 “ Come out from the midst of them and be separated,” says the Lord. 1 “ Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.” 1

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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