Colossians 2:17 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁷ For you are dead; and your life is hid with Christ in God.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Such [things] are only the shadow of things that are to come, and they have only a symbolic value. But the reality (the substance, the solid fact of what is foreshadowed, the body of it) belongs to Christ.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ These religious practices are only a shadow of what was coming—the body that cast the shadow is Christ.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ For these are a shadow of the future, but the body is of Christ.

Colossians 2:17 Cross References

John 1:17

5 And they asked him, and said to him: Why then dost thou baptize, if thou be not Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?

Hebrews 10:1

0 In the which will, we are sanctified by the oblation of the body of Jesus Christ once.

Hebrews 8:5

The former indeed had also justifications of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.

Hebrews 9:9

8 Whereupon neither was the first indeed dedicated without blood.