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Colossians 2:17
which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.
Colossians 2:17 · World English Bible
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Colossians 2:17 in other translations
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.
which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's.
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In context
14 wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.
15 Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
16 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,
17 which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.
18 Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
19 and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.
20 If you died with Christ from the elemental spirits of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
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