Colossians 2:14 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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;

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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

and cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.

Esther 3:12

Then were the king's scribes called in the first month, on the thirteenth day thereof, and there was written according to all that Haman commanded unto the king's satraps, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the princes of every people; to every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and it was sealed with the king's ring.

Esther 8:8

Write ye also to the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring: for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse.

Psalm 51:1

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness; According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Psalm 51:9

Hide thy face from my sins, And blot out all mine iniquities.

Isaiah 43:25

I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake; and I will not remember thy sins.

Isaiah 44:22

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.

Isaiah 57:14

And he shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.

Numbers 5:23

And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness:

Luke 1:6

And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

Acts 3:19

Repent ye therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that so there may come seasons of refreshing from the presence of the Lord;

Colossians 2:20

If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,

2 Thessalonians 2:7

For the mystery of lawlessness doth already work: only there is one that restraineth now, until he be taken out of the way.

Hebrews 7:18

For there is a disannulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness

Hebrews 8:13

In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. But that which is becoming old and waxeth aged is nigh unto vanishing away.

1 Peter 2:24

who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.