Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

Let not any man therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths,

New American Standard Bible

Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day—

King James Version

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:

Holman Bible

Therefore, don’t let anyone judge you in regard to food and drink or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day.

International Standard Version

Therefore, let no one judge you in matters of food and drink or with respect to a festival, a New Moon, or Sabbath days.

American Standard Version

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a sabbath day:

Amplified

Therefore let no one judge you in regard to food and drink or in regard to [the observance of] a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day.

An Understandable Version

So, do not allow anyone to judge [i.e., condemn] you for what you eat, or what you drink, or regarding [your non-observance of] a [yearly] festival, or a [monthly] "new moon" observance, or a [weekly] Sabbath day.

Anderson New Testament

Let no one judge you, therefore, in meat or in drink, or in respect to a feast, or the new moon, or sabbaths,

Bible in Basic English

For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths:

Common New Testament

Therefore let no one judge you in questions of food or drink or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day.

Daniel Mace New Testament

Let no man therefore condemn you for meats or drinks, or in respect of feasts, or new moons, or sabbaths:

Darby Translation

Let none therefore judge you in meat or in drink, or in matter of feast, or new moon, or sabbaths,

Godbey New Testament

Therefore let no one judge you in meat, or in drink, or in the participation of a feast, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath:

Goodspeed New Testament

So no one can call you to account for what you eat or drink, or do about annual or monthly feasts or Sabbaths.

John Wesley New Testament

Let none therefore judge you in meat, or drink, or in respect of a feast-day, or of the new-moon, or of sabbath-days: Which are shadow of things to come;

Julia Smith Translation

Therefore let not any judge you in food, or in drink, or in turn of festival, or of the new moon, or of sabbaths:

King James 2000

Let no man therefore judge you in food, or in drink, or in respect of a holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

Lexham Expanded Bible

Therefore do not let anyone judge you with reference to eating or drinking or participation in a feast or a new moon or a Sabbath,

Modern King James verseion

Therefore let no one judge you in food or in drink, or in respect of a feast, or of the new moon, or of the sabbaths.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Let no man therefore trouble your consciences about meat and drink: or for a piece of a holy day, as the holy day of the new moon, or of the Sabbath day:

Moffatt New Testament

So let no one take you to task on questions of eating and drinking or in connexion with the observance of festivals or new moons or sabbaths.

Montgomery New Testament

Therefore do not permit any one to sit in judgment on you in regard to what you may eat or drink, or in regard to feast-days or new moons or sabbaths.

NET Bible

Therefore do not let anyone judge you with respect to food or drink, or in the matter of a feast, new moon, or Sabbath days --

New Heart English Bible

Let no man therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

Noyes New Testament

Let no one then call you to account about food or drink, or a feastday, or a new moon, or sabbaths;

Sawyer New Testament

Let no man therefore judge you in eating and in drinking, or in respect to a feast, or new moon, or sabbath,

The Emphasized Bible

Let no one, therefore, be judging, you, - in eating and in drinking, or in respect of feast, or new moon, or sabbath, -

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Let no man therefore judge you concerning what you eat, or what you drink, or the observance of a feast, or new moon, or the sabbaths;

Twentieth Century New Testament

Do not, then, allow any one to take you to task on questions of eating or drinking, or in the matter of annual or monthly or weekly festivals.

Webster

Let no man therefore judge you in food, or in drink, or in respect of a holy-day, or or the new-moon, or of the sabbaths:

Weymouth New Testament

Therefore suffer no one to sit in judgement on you as to eating or drinking or with regard to a festival, a new moon or a sabbath.

Williams New Testament

Stop letting anyone pass judgment on you in matters of eating and drinking, or in the matter of annual or monthly feasts or sabbaths.

World English Bible

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

Worrell New Testament

Let no one, therefore, judge you in food, or in drink, or in respect of a feast, or a new moon, or sabbaths,

Worsley New Testament

Let no one therefore judge you on account of meat, or drink, or in respect of a feast, or a new-moon, or sabbaths;

Youngs Literal Translation

Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Let
κρίνω 
Krino 
Usage: 84

no
μή 
me 
not, no, that not, God forbid 9, lest, neither, no man , but, none, not translated,
Usage: 493

man
τίς 
Tis 
Usage: 373

οὖν 
Oun 
therefore, then, so, and, now, wherefore, but, not tr,
Usage: 417

κρίνω 
Krino 
Usage: 84

you
ὑμᾶς 
Humas 
you, ye, for your sakes Trans, not tr,
Usage: 314

in
ἐν 
En 
ἐν 
En 
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128
Usage: 2128
Usage: 2128

βρῶσις 
Brosis 
Usage: 5

or
ἤ 

ἤ 

ἤ 

ἤ 
or, than, either, or else, nor, not tr,
or, than, either, or else, nor, not tr,
or, than, either, or else, nor, not tr,
or, than, either, or else, nor, not tr,
Usage: 199
Usage: 199
Usage: 199
Usage: 199

πόσις 
Posis 
Usage: 2

μέρος 
meros 
Usage: 36

of an holyday
ἑορτή 
heorte 
Usage: 25

of the new moon
νουμηνία 
Noumenia 
Usage: 1

of the sabbath
σάββατον 
Sabbaton 
Usage: 48

Devotionals

Devotionals containing Colossians 2:16

Images Colossians 2:16

Prayers for Colossians 2:16

Context Readings

Beware Of Requirements Invented By Humans

15 Having stripped the principal offices and the positions of authority, he exposed them openly, having triumphed over them by it. 16 Let not any man therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths, 17 which are a shadow of the things coming, but the body is Christ's.



Cross References

Romans 14:5-6

One man prefers one day above another, another man prefers every day. Let each man be fully persuaded in his own mind.

Romans 14:10

But why do thou criticize thy brother? Or also why do thou disdain thy brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

Galatians 4:10

Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

1 Chronicles 23:31

And to offer all burnt-offerings to LORD, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, in number according to the ordinance concerning them, continually before LORD.

Nehemiah 10:33

for the showbread, and for the continual meal-offering, and for the continual burnt-offering, for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin-offerings to make atonement for Israel,

Hebrews 9:10

only in foods and drinks and various washings: carnal ordinances imposed until a time of reformation.

Leviticus 11:2-47

Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, These are the living things which ye may eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.

Leviticus 16:31

It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and ye shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever.

Leviticus 17:10-15

And whatever man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, who eats any manner of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

Leviticus 23:1-44

And LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Numbers 10:10

Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow the trumpets over your burnt-offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace-offerings. And they shall be to you for a m

Numbers 28:1-29

And LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Deuteronomy 14:3-21

Thou shall not eat any abominable thing.

Deuteronomy 16:1-17

Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to LORD thy God, for in the month of Abib LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.

1 Samuel 20:5

And David said to Jonathan, Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king to eat. But let me go that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening.

1 Samuel 20:18

Then Jonathan said to him, Tomorrow is the new moon, and thou will be missed because thy seat will be empty.

2 Kings 4:23

And he said, Why will thou go to him today? It is neither new moon nor Sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.

Nehemiah 8:9

And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to LORD your God; do not mourn nor weep. For all the people wept when they heard th

Nehemiah 10:31

And if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day. And that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

Psalm 42:4

These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I went with the throng, and led them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping holyday.

Psalm 81:3

Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast-day.

Isaiah 1:13

Bring no more vain oblations. Incense is an abomination to me. New moon and Sabbath, the calling of assemblies--I cannot bear iniquity and the solemn meeting.

Ezekiel 4:14

Then I said, Ah lord LORD! Behold, my soul has not been polluted. For from my youth up even till now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of beasts, neither has abominable flesh come into my mouth.

Ezekiel 45:17

And it shall be the ruler's part to give the burnt-offerings, and the meal-offerings, and the drink-offerings, in the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the Sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He shall p

Ezekiel 46:1-3

Thus says lord LORD: The gate of the inner court that looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days, but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

Amos 8:5

saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit,

Matthew 15:11

Not that which enters into the mouth defiles the man, but that which comes out of the mouth, this defiles the man.

Mark 2:27-28

And he said to them, The Sabbath came into being for sake of man, and not man for sake of the Sabbath.

Mark 7:19

because it does not enter into his heart, but into the belly, and goes out into the toilet (making all foods clean)?

Acts 11:3-18

saying, Thou went in to uncircumcised men, having also eaten with them.

Acts 15:20

but to write to them, to abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

Romans 14:2-3

One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats vegetables.

Romans 14:13-17

Let us not therefore criticize each other any more, but judge ye this instead, not to place a stumbling block to the brother, or a snare.

Romans 14:20-21

Do not tear down the work of God because of food. All things indeed are clean, but it is wrong to the man who eats through hindrance.

1 Corinthians 8:7-13

Nevertheless the knowledge is not in all men, but some, with conscience of the idol until now, eat as sacrificed to idols, and their weak conscience is defiled.

1 Corinthians 10:28-31

But if any man say to you, This is a sacrifice to an idol, do not eat for the sake of that man who informed, and the conscience, for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness of it.

Galatians 2:12-13

For before certain men came from James he ate together with the Gentiles, but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing men of circumcision.

1 Timothy 4:3-5

forbidding to marry, to abstain from foods, which God created for partaking with thankfulness by those who believe and know the truth.

Hebrews 13:9

Be not carried away by various and foreign doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established with grace, not with foods by which those who walked were not benefited.

James 4:11

Speak not against each other, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against law and judges law. But if thou judge law, thou are not a doer of law, but a judge.

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