Colossians 2:21

“Don’t handle, nor taste, nor touch”

World Messianic Bible British

In The King James Version

(Touch not; taste not; handle not;

In Context

20If you died with Messiah from the elemental spirits of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

22(all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?

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Cross References

Genesis 3:3but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’”

2 Corinthians 6:17Therefore “‘Come out from amongst them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

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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