Colossians 2:22

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

After these things are used, they are no longer good for anything. So why be bothered with the rules that humans have made up?

Cross References

Isaiah 29:13

The Lord has said: “These people praise me with their words, but they never really think about me. They worship me by repeating rules made up by humans.

Isaiah 29:18

The deaf will be able to hear whatever is read to them; the blind will be freed from a life of darkness.

Daniel 11:37

This king will reject the gods his ancestors worshipped and the god preferred by women. In fact, he will put himself above all gods

John 6:27

Don't work for food that spoils. Work for food that gives eternal life. The Son of Man will give you this food, because God the Father has given him the right to do so.”

1 Corinthians 6:13

You also say, “Food is meant for our bodies, and our bodies are meant for food.” But I tell you that God will destroy them both. We are not supposed to do indecent things with our bodies. We are to use them for the Lord who is in charge of our bodies.

Colossians 2:21

“Don't handle this. Don't taste that. Don't touch this.”?

Titus 1:14

Don't pay any attention to any of those senseless Jewish stories and human commands. These are made up by people who won't obey the truth.

2 Peter 2:12

These people are no better than senseless animals that live by their feelings and are born to be caught and killed. They speak evil of things they don't know anything about. But their own corrupt deeds will destroy them.

Revelation 17:18

The woman you saw is the great city that rules over all kings on earth.