Colossians 2:17 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ Which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ.

Colossians 2:17 Cross References

John 1:17

For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 10:1

For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices, which they offered year by year continually, make the comers thereunto perfect.

Hebrews 8:5

who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern showed to thee in the mount.

Hebrews 9:9

which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;