Colossians 2:14

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Summary

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;

Blotting

The handwriting

Took

Isaiah 57:14

2 Thessalonians 2:7

Bible References

Blotting

And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall blot them out with the bitter water,

And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee; for they have provoked the builders.

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.} Be gracious unto me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness; according to the abundance of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

I, I am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.

Repent therefore and be converted, for the blotting out of your sins, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

The handwriting

If ye have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why as if alive in the world do ye subject yourselves to ordinances?

Then were the king's scribes called, in the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month, and there was written according to all that Haman commanded unto the king's satraps, and to the governors over every province, and to the princes of every people; to every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people according to their language: in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring.

Write ye then for the Jews as seems good to you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring. For a writing that is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, cannot be reversed.

The king cried aloud to bring in the magicians, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.

And they were both just before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

Now I say, As long as the heir is a child, he differs nothing from a bondman, though he be lord of all;

For he is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of enclosure,

For there is a setting aside of the commandment going before for its weakness and unprofitableness,

In that he says New, he has made the first old; but that which grows old and aged is near disappearing.

the which is an image for the present time, according to which both gifts and sacrifices, unable to perfect as to conscience him that worshipped, are offered,

Above, saying Sacrifices and offerings and burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou willedst not, neither tookest pleasure in (which are offered according to the law);

Took

And it shall be said, Cast up, cast up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-blocks out of the way of my people.

For the mystery of lawlessness already works; only there is he who restrains now until he be gone,