Colossians 2:14

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He has destroyed what was against us, a certificate of indebtedness expressed in decrees opposed to us. He has taken it away by nailing it to the cross.

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  • Heb 7:18 : 18 On the one hand a former command is set aside because it is weak and useless,
  • Heb 10:8-9 : 8 When he says above,“Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them”(which are offered according to the law), 9 then he says,“Here I am: I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first to establish the second.
  • Eph 2:14-16 : 14 For he is our peace, the one who made both groups into one and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility, 15 when he nullified in his flesh the law of commandments in decrees. He did this to create in himself one new man out of two, thus making peace, 16 and to reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by which the hostility has been killed.
  • Col 2:20 : 20 If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit to them as though you lived in the world?
  • 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we may cease from sinning and live for righteousness. By his wounds you were healed.
  • Heb 8:13 : 13 When he speaks of a new covenant, he makes the first obsolete. Now what is growing obsolete and aging is about to disappear.
  • Heb 9:9-9 : 9 This was a symbol for the time then present, when gifts and sacrifices were offered that could not perfect the conscience of the worshiper. 10 They served only for matters of food and drink and various ritual washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came.
  • Isa 44:22 : 22 I remove the guilt of your rebellious deeds as if they were a cloud, the guilt of your sins as if they were a cloud. Come back to me, for I protect you.”
  • Isa 57:14 : 14 He says,“Build it! Build it! Clear a way! Remove all the obstacles out of the way of my people!”
  • Dan 5:7-8 : 7 The king called out loudly to summon the astrologers, wise men, and diviners. The king proclaimed to the wise men of Babylon that anyone who could read this inscription and disclose its interpretation would be clothed in purple and have a golden collar placed on his neck and be third ruler in the kingdom. 8 So all the king’s wise men came in, but they were unable to read the writing or to make known its interpretation to the king.
  • Ps 51:1 : 1 For the music director; a psalm of David, written when Nathan the prophet confronted him after David’s affair with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, because of your loyal love! Because of your great compassion, wipe away my rebellious acts!
  • Ps 51:9 : 9 Hide your face from my sins! Wipe away all my guilt!
  • Isa 43:25 : 25 I, I am the one who blots out your rebellious deeds for my sake; your sins I do not remember.
  • Gal 4:1-4 : 1 Now I mean that the heir, as long as he is a minor, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything. 2 But he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father. 3 So also we, when we were minors, were enslaved under the basic forces of the world. 4 But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
  • 2 Thess 2:7 : 7 For the hidden power of lawlessness is already at work. However, the one who holds him back will do so until he is taken out of the way,
  • Luke 1:6 : 6 They were both righteous in the sight of God, following all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly.
  • Acts 3:19 : 19 Therefore repent and turn back so that your sins may be wiped out,
  • Num 5:23 : 23 “‘Then the priest will write these curses on a scroll and then scrape them off into the bitter water.
  • Neh 4:5 : 5 Do not cover their iniquity, and do not wipe out their sin from your sight. For they have bitterly offended the builders!
  • Esth 3:12 : 12 So the royal scribes were summoned in the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month. Everything Haman commanded was written to the king’s satraps and governors who were in every province and to the officials of every people, province by province according to its script and people by people according to its language. In the name of King Ahasuerus it was written and sealed with the king’s signet ring.
  • Esth 8:8 : 8 Now you write in the king’s name whatever in your opinion is appropriate concerning the Jews and seal it with the king’s signet ring. Any decree that is written in the king’s name and sealed with the king’s signet ring cannot be rescinded.

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