but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, nor shall you touch it, or you shall die.’ ”
Colossians 2:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”? More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 (touch not; taste not; handle not; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Do not handle [this], Do not taste [that], Do not even touch [them], American Standard Version (1901) Handle not, nor taste, nor touch Common English Bible “Don’t handle!” “Don’t taste!” “Don’t touch!” Catholic Public Domain Version Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle these things, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Touch not, taste not, handle not: |
but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, nor shall you touch it, or you shall die.’ ”
Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of it; purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the Lord.
Therefore come out from them, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch nothing unclean; then I will welcome you,
If with Christ you died to the elemental principles of the world, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations,
All these regulations refer to things that perish with use; they are simply human commands and teachings.
They forbid marriage and abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.