Colossians 2:14

World English Bible (2000)

wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Heb 7:18 : 18 For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness
  • Heb 10:8-9 : 8 Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't desire, neither had pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the law), 9 then he has said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,
  • Eph 2:14-16 : 14 For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition, 15 having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace; 16 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby.
  • Col 2:20 : 20 If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
  • 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
  • Heb 8:13 : 13 In that he says, "A new covenant," he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.
  • Heb 9:9-9 : 9 which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshipper perfect; 10 being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
  • Isa 44:22 : 22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
  • Isa 57:14 : 14 He will say, "Cast up, cast up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people."
  • Dan 5:7-8 : 7 The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever shall read this writing, and show me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom. 8 Then came in all the king's wise men; but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation.
  • Ps 51:1 : 1 Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
  • Ps 51:9 : 9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.
  • Isa 43:25 : 25 I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
  • Gal 4:1-4 : 1 But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all; 2 but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father. 3 So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world. 4 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
  • 2 Thess 2:7 : 7 For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way.
  • Luke 1:6 : 6 They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
  • Acts 3:19 : 19 "Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,
  • Num 5:23 : 23 "'The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness.
  • Neh 4:5 : 5 don't cover their iniquity, and don't let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders."
  • Esth 3:12 : 12 Then the king's scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king's satraps, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the king's ring.
  • Esth 8:8 : 8 Write also to the Jews, as it pleases 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 not be reversed by any man."

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Col 2:15
    82%

    15 having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

  • Col 2:10-13
    4 verses
    82%

    10 and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;

    11 in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

    12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

    13 You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

  • Eph 2:13-17
    5 verses
    80%

    13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

    14 For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition,

    15 having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;

    16 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby.

    17 He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.

  • Col 1:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;

    14 in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins;

  • Col 2:20
    75%

    20 If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

  • Col 1:20-22
    3 verses
    74%

    20 and through him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.

    21 You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works,

    22 yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and blameless before him,

  • Gal 3:13
    74%

    13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"

  • 1 Pet 2:24
    73%

    24 who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

  • Eph 1:7
    72%

    7 in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

  • 2 Cor 2:10
    72%

    10 Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

  • Rom 6:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

    7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.

  • Gal 6:14
    72%

    14 But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

  • Eph 2:1
    71%

    1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

  • Rom 3:24-25
    2 verses
    71%

    24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

    25 whom God set forth to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God's forbearance;

  • Rom 7:6
    70%

    6 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

  • Gal 5:24
    70%

    24 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

  • Gal 5:1
    70%

    1 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

  • Eph 2:11
    70%

    11 Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by that which is called "circumcision," (in the flesh, made by hands);

  • Col 3:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7 You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

    8 but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

  • Col 3:13
    70%

    13 bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

  • Col 3:11
    70%

    11 where there can't be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.

  • Eph 1:20
    69%

    20 which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,

  • Rom 8:2-3
    2 verses
    69%

    2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

    3 For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

  • Heb 2:14
    69%

    14 Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

  • Gal 6:12
    69%

    12 As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 1:30
    69%

    30 But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

  • Eph 2:5
    68%

    5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

  • Gal 2:19-20
    2 verses
    68%

    19 For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

    20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

  • Eph 1:10
    68%

    10 to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in him;

  • Eph 4:32
    68%

    32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

  • Eph 4:22
    68%

    22 that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

  • Eph 2:7
    68%

    7 that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;

  • 2 Cor 3:14
    68%

    14 But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.

  • Titus 2:14
    68%

    14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

  • Eph 2:3
    68%

    3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.