Colossians 2:17 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁷ which are a shadow of what is to come – but the Body of the Messiah.

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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

for the Torah was given through Mosheh – the favour and the truth came through יהושע  Messiah.

Hebrews 10:1

For the Torah, having a shadow of the good matters to come, and not the image itself of the matters, was never able to make perfect those who draw near with the same slaughter offerings which they offer continually year by year.

Hebrews 8:5

who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly, as Mosheh was warned when he was about to make the Tent. For He said, “See that you make all according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”

Hebrews 9:9

which was a parable for the present time in which both gifts and slaughters are offered which are unable to perfect the one serving, as to his conscience,