Colossians 2:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

Judge

In meat, etc

Of an

Romans 14:5

The new

Galatians 4:10

General references

Mark 2:27

Galatians 4:10

Bible References

Judge

The man who eats anything must not look down on the man who does not do so, nor must the man who does not do so condemn the man who does, for God has fully accepted him.

But if someone says to you, "This meat has been offered as a heathen sacrifice," make it your rule not to eat it, for the sake of the man who warned you and for conscience' sake;

For before the coming of certain people from James, he was in the habit of eating with heathen Christians, but after they came, he began to draw back and hold aloof from them, because he was afraid of the circumcision party.

Stop talking against one another, brothers. Whoever is in the habit of talking against a brother or of criticizing his brother is criticizing and condemning the law. But if you are in the habit of criticizing the law, you are not a practicer but a critic of the law.

In meat, etc

It is not what goes into a man's mouth that makes him foul; no, it is what comes out of a man's mouth that makes him foul."

for having visited and eaten with men who were not Jews.

but we should write them to abstain from everything that is contaminated by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from tasting blood.

One man believes that he can eat anything; another who is overscrupulous eats nothing but vegetables.

But it is not in all of you that such knowledge is found. Some, because of their past habits with idols, even down to the present moment, still eat such food as was really sacrificed to an idol, and so their consciences, because they are overscrupulous, are contaminated.

who forbid people to marry and teach them to abstain from certain sorts of food which God created for the grateful enjoyment of those who have faith and a clear knowledge of the truth.

since they deal only with food and drink and various washings, that is, with mere material regulations which are in force only until the time of setting things straight.

You must stop being carried away with varied and strange teachings. For it is a good thing for the heart to be strengthened by God's spiritual strength, not by special kinds of food, from which those adhering to them have gotten no good.

Of an

One man rates one day above another, another rates them all alike. Let every man be fully convinced in his own mind.

The new

You are observing days, months, seasons, years.

General references

Then He said to them, "The Sabbath was made to serve man and not man to keep the Sabbath.

You are observing days, months, seasons, years.