Colossians 2:15

and by the yielding up of his body he hath prostrated principalities and powers, and hath shamed them openly by himself.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

In Context

14and hath blotted out in his mandates the writing of our debts that was against us, and hath taken it from the midst, and affixed it to his cross;

16LET no man therefore judge you in meat and in drink, or in the distinctions of festivals, and of new moons, and of shabeths,

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Cross References

Luke 10:18Then he said to them, I saw him, Satana, when he fell as lightning from heaven.

Luke 23:39And one of those workers of evil who were hanged with him, blasphemed against him, saying, If thou art the Meshicha, deliver thyself, and deliver us also.

John 16:11but of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

Acts 2:23This, who was separated thereunto by the foreknowledge and by the will of Aloha, you delivered into the hands of the wicked, and crucified and slew.

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 →

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