Col 2:14
(ASV) having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out that way, nailing it to the cross;
(BBE) Having put an end to the handwriting of the law which was against us, taking it out of the way by nailing it to his cross;
(Darby) having effaced the handwriting in ordinances which stood out against us, which was contrary to us, he has taken it also out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;
(ESV) by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.
(GNB) he canceled the unfavorable record of our debts with its binding rules and did away with it completely by nailing it to the cross.
(ISV) having erased the charges that were brought against us with their decrees that were hostile to us. He took those charges away when he nailed them to the cross.
(KJV) 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;
(KJV+) Blotting outG1813 theG3588 handwritingG5498 of ordinancesG1378 that was againstG2596 us,G2257 whichG3739 wasG2258 contraryG5227 to us,G2254 andG2532 tookG142 itG846 out ofG1537 theG3588 way,G3319 nailingG4338 itG846 to his cross;G4716
(MKJV) blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.
(WNT) The bond, with its requirements, which was in force against us and was hostile to us, He cancelled, and cleared it out of the way, nailing it to His Cross.
(YLT) having blotted out the handwriting in the ordinances that is against us, that was contrary to us, and he hath taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;What, exactly, is nailed to the cross in Colossians 2:14?
Just exactly what it says, Yeshua died for our sins (the charges against us) thus the charges that should be nailed to our execution stake because we have all sinned and fall short of the glory of God was put upon Yeshua in his death.
If you will all remember the charges against Yeshua were nailed to his execution stake. It was a common practice.
But it appears that many of you don't care a whit about cultural context but only want an excuse to continue in sin. I'd try reading Hebews 6 and 10 if I were you. And while your at it read Romans 6.
If you continue in sin (breaking the law of God, which is what you do when you ignore the commandments saying they are nailed to the cross) you are not of Messiah. You will in that day be the ones saying Lord Lord we did all these things in your name and he will say to you away with you! I never knew you, You who practice Iniquity (breaking the law).
Repent! The Kingdom of God is at hand!What, exactly, is nailed to the cross in Colossians 2:14?
The 613 Laws of Moses.
every knee will one day bow, and every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord of all the Earth, King of Heaven.......are you ready?
the Law.
our sins...
No the last answer from meekanb is wrong. She is throwing out the baby witht the bathwater. Sacrifices are gone. NewTest. says do we make void the law God forbid we establish it. The law ';was'; (#1096 should be the word ';become'; ) not ';was'; become our schoolmaster. I dont have a thorough understanding but I am trying to find out the complete answer to, because God showed me in a vision, 10 second vision that there is something we are ';big time'; missing regarding the Law. I just quoted the New Test. Those verses show that you are still off somewhere. Jesus said I did not come to detroy the law but fulfill, 1 jot or 1 tittle....not pass till all be fulfilled or (#1096 to become again not fulfilled ) All become????? Why did Jesus have Jewish parents, (Jewish religion), he was taught all the Old Test. just like the Jews... I am still searching about all this diligently.
If our hearts have been hardened, yea, if we have hardened our hearts against the word, insomuch that it has not been found in us, then will our state be awful, for then we shall be condemned.
For our words will condemn us, yea, all our works will condemn us; we shall not be found spotless; and our thoughts will also condemn us; and in this awful state we shall not dare to look up to our God; and we would fain be glad if we could command the rocks and the mountains to fall upon us to hide us from his presence.
Col 2:14 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;
It is commonly assumed that the ';handwriting of ordinances'; is the Old Testament law. The term handwriting is from the Greek cheirographon, which generally refers to a legal document or bond, and is used of a ';record book of sins'; in Jewish apocalyptic literature.
The King James Version's ';handwriting of ordinances'; is an unfortunate translation. Modern English versions are better, and generally do not leave the impression that Paul is speaking of Old Testament laws. Notice how Colossians 2:13b,14 is rendered in the following modern English versions:
The New Revised Standard Version: ';when he forgave us all our trespasses, erasing the record that stood against us with its legal demands. He set this aside, nailing it to the cross.';
The New American Standard Bible: ';having forgiven us all our transgressions, having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us and which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.';
The New American Bible: ';having forgiven us all our transgressions; obliterating the bond against us, with its legal claims, which was opposed to us, he also removed it from our midst, nailing it to the cross.';
The ';record,'; ';certificate of debt,'; or ';bond'; that was against us was not the Old Testament law; it was the record of our sins. When God forgives our sins, he erases the record completely.
In verse 16, Paul mentions the Sabbaths and festivals, but he does not chastise the Colossians for keeping them. He simply admonishes them to allow no one to judge them in matters regarding eating and drinking or Sabbath or festival observance. This suggests that the Colossians were observing holy days, and someone was judging them for it.
While many cite Colossians 2:16 as ';proof'; that the holy days were ';done away,'; at least a few evangelical scholars point out that the passage suggests that the Colossians were observing the holy days.
One such scholar is Douglas R. De Lacey, Ph.D., of the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, England). De Lacey says, ';The 'judgment' seems to be criticism of the Christians' present practice, apparently of eating and drinking and enjoying Jewish festivals, in contrast to those whose watchword was 'do not handle, do not taste, do not even touch' (Col. 2:21)'; (Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, InterVarsity Press, 1993).
The troublemakers were philosophers who claimed that one could obtain a higher level of spirituality or righteousness by practicing asceticism (';Touch not; taste not; handle not';verse 21). Paul says the philosophers' regulations are nothing more than the ';commandments and doctrines of men'; (verse 22).
Given the nature of the problem, it is doubtful that the philosophers were judging the Colossians for keeping or not keeping Sabbaths and festivals. More likely, their judgment was based on how the Colossians kept the holy days. It seems that the joy, laughter, and pleasure of eating and drinkingall of which were abundant on holy dayswere not in agreement with the philosophers' ascetic views.
By attaching man-made regulations to Christian fellowship and holy day observance, the philosophers were missing the purpose of the holy days. Holy days are not an end in themselves; they are a means to an end. As Paul says, they are a ';shadow of things to come,'; but Christ is the ';body'; that casts the shadow. Without the body (or ';substance';), the shadow is worth little. With the body, however, the shadow serves as a means of enhancing worship and increasing understanding and appreciation of Christ's redemptive work and God's plan for mankind.
Colossians 2:14聽(Amplified Bible)
14Having cancelled and blotted out and wiped away the handwriting of the note (bond) with its legal decrees and demands which was in force and stood against us (hostile to us). This [note with its regulations, decrees, and demands] He set aside and cleared [a]completely out of our way by nailing it to [His] cross.
Colossians 2:14聽(New Living Translation)
14 He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross.聽
Colossians 2:14聽(New King James Version)
14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
Colossians 2:14聽(The Message)
聽11-15Entering into this fullness is not something you figure out or achieve. It's not a matter of being circumcised or keeping a long list of laws. No, you're already in鈥攊nsiders鈥攏ot through some secretive initiation rite but rather through what Christ has already gone through for you, destroying the power of sin. If it's an initiation ritual you're after, you've already been through it by submitting to baptism. Going under the water was a burial of your old life; coming up out of it was a resurrection, God raising you from the dead as he did Christ. When you were stuck in your old sin-dead life, you were incapable of responding to God. God brought you alive鈥攔ight along with Christ! Think of it! All sins forgiven, the slate wiped clean, that old arrest warrant canceled and nailed to Christ's cross. He stripped all the spiritual tyrants in the universe of their sham authority at the Cross and marched them naked through the streets.
Legalism ( laws ) pertaining to the OC which includes the covenant sign that God made with the Israelites---the Israelites only.
First, in order to learn what the Holy Bible teaches, one must read and study what the entire passage is about. Verse 14 is part of a sentence of v. 13.
Read in order to understand:
13 And you, being dead in your trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contraty to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. 16 So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival ot a new moon or sabbaths, 17 which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ. (COLOSSIANS 2:13-17, NEW KING JAMES VERSION).
20 Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations--- 21';Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,'; 22 which all concern things which perish with the using---according to the commandments and doctrines of men? 23 These things have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh. (COLOSSIANS 2:20-23, NEW KING JAMES VERSION).
By knowing why Paul wrote the letter to the Colossians might by of some help for your understanding of this. Also, by taking particular notice of the word ';it'; in v. 15; the phrase: ';which were a shadow of things to come'; in v. 17; the word ';if'; in v. 20 and the word ';why'; in v. 20 also; the phrase ';do you subject yourselves to regulations'; in v. 20; v. 21 which is in quotation marks which represent things from the now void OC law; all of v, 22; the phrase: ';have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion,'; in v. 23; the word ';false'; in v. 23; and the phrase ';but are of no value'; in v. 23.
This is not the only place that shows that Christians are not (never have been) under the OC and the laws within. Believers have been freed from such requirements and demands as COL. 2:11-23 explains. The new life and power of a believer comes from being ';in Christ'; and NOT from any OUTSIDE OBSERVANCES.
Now, read and understand Hebrews 10:1-10.
Take notice of v. 1 for you'll see something you read in Col 2:17.
Also take extra special notice of Hebrews 10:8-10.
8 Previously saying, ';Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them'; (which are offered according to the law), 9 then He said, ';Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God.'; He takes away the first that He may establish the second. 10 By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. (HEBREWS 8:8-10, NEW KING JAMES VERSION).
Praise God!!!!!!!!!!
Re-read v.9!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re-read v. 10!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The writer of Hebrews (I believe was Paul) quoted Jeremiah in v v 16-17 concerning the New Covenant.
31 Behold, the days are coming says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah---32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD. 33 But this is covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be My people. 34 No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they all shall know Me, from the lest of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.'; (JEREMIAH 31:31-34, NEW KING JAMES VERSION).
You see, God said He would make a new covenant with His people. Unlike the covenant at Sinai which demanded outward obedience to the old covenant and the external laws, this new covenant He said would consist of inward renewal, which would enable the people to live in a right covenantal relationship with Him. The New Covenant is internal, universal, and unconditional. ALL people have the opportunity for an intimate, personal relationship with the Lord. Connect this one prophecy with the NT. (IF you fully understand the NT and especially Hebrews, you'll understand that this New Covenant is for ALL people). A primary element of this New Covenant is forgiveness. NT writers find the fulfillment of this prophecy in Jesus Christ in Heb. 8:7-13. Jeremiah's prophecy is quoted again in Heb. 8:8-12.
IF you truly desire to understand the New Covenant, read Heb. 8:7-13.
13 In that He says, ';A new covenant,'; He has made the first obselete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. (Hebrews 8:13, NEW KING JAMES VERSION).
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