Bible verse

Colossians 2:17

These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.

Colossians 2:17 · BSB

Colossians 2:17 in context

The verses around it, from Colossians 2.

13 When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,

14 having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!

15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

16 Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.

17 These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.

18 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up without basis by his unspiritual mind.

19 He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.

20 If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:

21 “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”?

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Colossians 2:17 in other translations

KJV

Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body [is] of Christ.

ASV

which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.

ERV

which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.

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