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

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Isaiah 57:14

2 Thessalonians 2:7

Bible References

Blotting

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

And do not cover their iniquity, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before You. For they have provoked You to anger before the builders.

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving-kindness; according to the multitude of Your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

I, I am He who blots out your sins for My own sake, and will not remember your sins.

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins; return to Me; for I have redeemed you.

Therefore repent and convert so that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.

The handwriting

If then you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, are you subject to its ordinances:

Then the king's scribes were called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded to the king's lieutenants, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province, according to the writing of it, and to every people according to their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king's ring.

And you write for the Jews as it pleases you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring. For the writing which is written in the king's name and sealed with the king's ring, no man may turn back.

The king cried aloud to bring in the conjurers, the Chaldeans, and the fortune-tellers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever shall read this writing, and show me its meaning, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold around his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.

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

But I say, Over so long a time the heir is an infant, he does not differ from a slave, though being lord of all;

For He is our peace, He making us both one, and He has broken down the middle wall of partition between us,

For truly there is a putting away of the commandment which went before, because of the weakness and unprofitableness of it.

In that He says, A new covenant, He has made the first one old. Now that which decays and becomes old is ready to vanish away.

For it was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices that could not make him who did the service perfect as regards the conscience,

Above, when He said, "Sacrifice and offering, and burnt offerings and offering for sin You did not desire, neither did You have pleasure in them" (which are offered according to the Law),

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And He shall say, Raise up! Raise up! Clear the way! Make the stumbling-block rise out of the way of My people.

For the mystery of lawlessness is already working, only he is now holding back until it comes out of the midst.