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Colossians 2:19-21
New English Translation
Colossians 2:19-21
New English Translation
19 He has not held fast[a] to the head from whom the whole body, supported[b] and knit together through its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.[c]
20 If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits[d] of the world, why do you submit to them as though you lived in the world? 21 “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”
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- Colossians 2:19 tn The Greek participle κρατῶν (kratōn) was translated as a finite verb to avoid an unusually long and pedantic sentence structure in English.
- Colossians 2:19 tn See BDAG 387 s.v. ἐπιχορηγέω 3.
- Colossians 2:19 tn The genitive τοῦ θεοῦ (tou theou) has been translated as a genitive of source, “from God.”
- Colossians 2:20 tn See the note on the phrase “elemental spirits” in 2:8.
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