Colossians 2:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ Therefore, do not let anyone condemn you in matters of food or drink or of observing festivals, new moons, or Sabbaths.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Therefore let no one sit in judgment on you in matters of food and drink, or with regard to a feast day or a New Moon or a Sabbath.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a sabbath day:

Common English Bible

¹⁶ So don’t let anyone judge you about eating or drinking or about a festival, a new moon observance, or sabbaths.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Therefore, let no one judge you as concerns food or drink, or a particular feast day, or feast days of new moons, or of Sabbaths.

Colossians 2:16 Cross References

Romans 14:10

Why do you pass judgment on your brother or sister? Or you, why do you despise your brother or sister? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.

Galatians 4:10

You are observing special days and months and seasons and years.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by regulations about food, which have not benefited those who observe them.

Ezekiel 45:17

This shall be the obligation of the prince regarding the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings, at the festivals, the new moons, and the Sabbaths, all the appointed festivals of the house of Israel: he shall provide the purification offerings, the grain offerings, the burnt offerings, and the offerings of well-being, to make atonement for the house of Israel.

Nehemiah 10:33

for the rows of bread, the regular grain offering, the regular burnt offering, the Sabbaths, the new moons, the appointed festivals, the sacred donations, and the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.

1 Chronicles 23:31

and whenever burnt offerings are offered to the Lord on Sabbaths, new moons, and appointed festivals, according to the number required of them, regularly before the Lord.

Matthew 15:11

it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles.”

Hebrews 9:10

but deal only with food and drink and various baptisms, regulations for the body imposed until the time comes to set things right.

James 4:11

Do not speak evil against one another, brothers and sisters. Whoever speaks evil against another or judges another speaks evil against the law and judges the law, but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

Mark 7:19

since it enters not the heart but the stomach and goes out into the sewer?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)

Acts 15:20

but we should write to them to abstain only from things polluted by idols and from sexual immorality and from whatever has been strangled and from blood.

Ezekiel 4:14

Then I said, “Ah Lord God! I have never defiled myself; from my youth up until now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by animals, nor has carrion flesh come into my mouth.”

Isaiah 1:13

Bringing offerings is futile; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and Sabbath and calling of convocation— I cannot endure solemn assemblies with iniquity.

Psalm 81:3

Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our festal day.

Psalm 42:4

These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I went with the throng and led them in procession to the house of God, with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.

Nehemiah 10:31

and if the peoples of the land bring in merchandise or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not buy it from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day, and we will forego the crops of the seventh year and the exaction of every debt.

Nehemiah 8:9

And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, “This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn or weep.” For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law.

2 Kings 4:23

He said, “Why go to him today? It is neither new moon nor Sabbath.” She said, “It will be all right.”

1 Samuel 20:18

Jonathan said to him, “Tomorrow is the new moon; you will be missed because your place will be empty.

1 Samuel 20:5

David said to Jonathan, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at the meal, but let me go, so that I may hide in the field until the third evening.

Leviticus 16:31

It is a Sabbath of complete rest to you, and you shall humble yourselves; it is a statute forever.

Amos 8:5

saying, “When will the new moon be over so that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath, so that we may offer wheat for sale? We will make the ephah smaller and the shekel heavier and practice deceit with false balances,

Numbers 10:10

Also on your days of rejoicing, at your appointed festivals, and at the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over your sacrifices of well-being; they shall serve as a reminder on your behalf before the Lord your God: I am the Lord your God.”

2 Chronicles 31:3

The contribution of the king from his own possessions was for the burnt offerings: the burnt offerings of morning and evening, and the burnt offerings for the Sabbaths, the new moons, and the appointed festivals, as it is written in the law of the Lord.

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,