Colossians 2:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ erasing the record that stood against us with its legal demands. He set this aside, nailing it to the cross.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ Having cancelled and blotted out and wiped away the handwriting of the note (bond) with its legal decrees and demands which was in force and stood against us (hostile to us). This [note with its regulations, decrees, and demands] He set aside and cleared completely out of our way by nailing it to [His] cross.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

Common English Bible

¹⁴ He destroyed the record of the debt we owed, with its requirements that worked against us. He canceled it by nailing it to the cross.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ and wiping away the handwriting of the decree which was against us, which was contrary to us. And he has taken this away from your midst, affixing it to the Cross.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ Blotting out the handwriting of the decree that was against us, which was contrary to us. And he hath taken the same out of the way, fastening it to the cross:

Colossians 2:14 Cross References

Nehemiah 4:5

Do not cover their guilt, and do not let their sin be blotted out from your sight, for they have raged against the builders.

Esther 3:12

Then the king’s secretaries were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and an edict, according to all that Haman commanded, was written to the king’s satraps and to the governors over all the provinces and to the officials of all the peoples, to every province in its own script and every people in its own language; it was written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king’s ring.

Esther 8:8

You may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the name of the king, and seal it with the king’s ring, for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the king’s ring cannot be revoked.”

Psalm 51:1

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy, blot out my transgressions.

Psalm 51:9

Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

Isaiah 43:25

I alone am the one who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.

Isaiah 44:22

I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.

Isaiah 57:14

It shall be said, “Build up, build up, prepare the way; remove every obstruction from my people’s way.”

Numbers 5:23

“Then the priest shall put these curses in writing and wash them off into the water of bitterness.

Luke 1:6

Both of them were righteous before God, living blamelessly according to all the commandments and regulations of the Lord.

Acts 3:19

Repent, therefore, and turn to God so that your sins may be wiped out,

Colossians 2:20

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,

2 Thessalonians 2:7

For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, but only until the one who now restrains it is removed.

Hebrews 7:18

There is, on the one hand, the abrogation of an earlier commandment because it was weak and ineffectual

Hebrews 8:13

In speaking of a new covenant, he has made the first one obsolete, and what is obsolete and growing old will soon disappear.

1 Peter 2:24

He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that, having died to sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.