Colossians 2:14

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He erased the legal debt that stood against us with its decrees. He took it away, nailing it to the cross.

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  • Heb 7:18 : 18 The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless,
  • Heb 10:8-9 : 8 After saying above that sacrifices, offerings, whole burnt offerings, and offerings for sins You did not desire nor were pleased with—which are offered according to the law— 9 then He said, 'Behold, I have come to do Your will.' He takes away the first to establish the second.
  • Eph 2:14-16 : 14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has broken down in His flesh the dividing wall of hostility. 15 He has abolished the law with its commandments and regulations, so that He might create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace, 16 and might reconcile both to God in one body through the cross, by which He put their hostility to death.
  • Col 2:20 : 20 If you died with Christ to the elemental principles of the world, why, as though still living in the world, do you submit to its decrees?
  • 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness. By His wounds, you have been healed.
  • Heb 8:13 : 13 By calling this covenant 'new,' he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.
  • Heb 9:9-9 : 9 This is a symbol for the present time, indicating that the gifts and sacrifices being offered cannot perfect the worshiper in conscience. 10 They are only regulations concerning food and drink and various ceremonial washings, external ordinances imposed until the time of reformation.
  • Isa 44:22 : 22 I have wiped away your transgressions like a thick cloud and your sins like a mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
  • Isa 57:14 : 14 And it will be said: 'Build up, build up, prepare the road! Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people.'
  • Dan 5:7-8 : 7 The king called out loudly to bring in the enchanters, Chaldeans, and diviners. He declared to the wise men of Babylon, 'Whoever reads the writing and tells me its interpretation will be clothed in purple, have a gold chain placed around their neck, and be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.' 8 Then all the king’s wise men came in, but they could not read the writing or tell the king what it meant.
  • Ps 51:1 : 1 For the choir director: A psalm of David.
  • Ps 51:9 : 9 Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
  • Isa 43:25 : 25 I, I am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake, and I will not remember your sins.
  • Gal 4:1-4 : 1 I say that as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, even though he is the master of everything. 2 But he is under guardians and managers until the time set by his father. 3 In the same way, we too, when we were children, were enslaved under the elemental principles of the world. 4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
  • 2 Thess 2:7 : 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only the one now restraining it will do so until he is taken out of the way.
  • Luke 1:6 : 6 Both were righteous in the sight of God, living blamelessly according to all the commandments and requirements of the Lord.
  • Acts 3:19 : 19 Repent, therefore, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away.
  • Num 5:23 : 23 The priest is to write these curses on a scroll and then wash them off into the bitter water.
  • Neh 4:5 : 5 Our enemies said, 'They won’t know or see a thing until we come among them, kill them, and stop the work.'
  • Esth 3:12 : 12 On the thirteenth day of the first month, the king’s scribes were summoned and an edict was written according to all that Haman commanded. It was addressed to the satraps of the king, to the governors of each province, and to the officials of every people, to each province in its script and to each people in its language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king’s signet ring.
  • Esth 8:8 : 8 Now you may write in the king’s name concerning the Jews as you see fit and seal it with the king’s signet ring. For a document written in the king’s name and sealed with the king’s ring cannot be revoked.

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