Colossians 2:16

Fellowship and the church The law Fasting

¹⁴ Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

¹⁵ And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

¹⁷ Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

¹⁸ Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.
KJV: Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
WEB: Let no one therefore judge you in eating or drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,
ASV: Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a sabbath day:
DARBY: Let none therefore judge you in meat or in drink, or in matter of feast, or new moon, or sabbaths,
BLB: Therefore let no one judge you⁺ in food or in drink or in the part of a feast or of a New Moon or of Sabbaths,

ÅB: La derfor ingen dømme dere for mat eller drikke, eller i spørsmål om høytid eller nymåne eller sabbat;
OTB: Derfor, la ingen dømme dere i spørsmål om mat og drikke, eller med hensyn til en høytid, en nymåne eller en sabbatsdag.
B1930: La derfor ingen dømme eder for mat eller drikke, eller i spørsmål om høitid eller nymåne eller sabbat;

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Romans 14:5–6
One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
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Romans 14:10
But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
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Galatians 4:10
Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
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Romans 14:13–17
Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.
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Romans 14:2–3
For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
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Hebrews 13:9
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
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Ezekiel 45:17
And it shall be the prince’s part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel.
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1 Chronicles 23:31
And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the LORD in the sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the order commanded unto them, continually before the LORD:
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