Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

and not holding fast the head, from whom all the body, ministered to and united together by the joints and bands, increases with the increase of God.

New American Standard Bible

and not holding fast to the head, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God.

King James Version

And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.

Holman Bible

He doesn’t hold on to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and tendons, develops with growth from God.

International Standard Version

He does not hold on to the head, from whom the whole body, which is nourished and held together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God enables it.

A Conservative Version

and not holding to the head, from whom all the body, being supplied and held together through the connections and bonds, develops its growth from God.

American Standard Version

and not holding fast the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, increasing with the increase of God.

Amplified

and not holding fast to the head [of the body, Jesus Christ], from whom the entire body, supplied and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows with the growth [that can come only] from God.

An Understandable Version

He is not holding on [firmly] to the head [i.e., Christ, the head of the church], from whom the entire body, being nourished and supported by its ligaments and joints, is caused to grow in size by God.

Anderson New Testament

and not holding the head, from which the whole body gathering vigor, and firmly united by joints and bands, increases with the increase of God.

Bible in Basic English

And not joined to the Head, from whom all the body, being given strength and kept together through its joins and bands, has its growth with the increase of God.

Common New Testament

and not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.

Daniel Mace New Testament

not adhering to the head, from which all the parts of the body derive its nutrition, and being firmly united together by its joints and ligaments, receives a divine increase.

Godbey New Testament

and not holding the Head, from which the entire body, by joints and ligaments being supplied and knitted together, increases the increase of God.

Goodspeed New Testament

Such people lose their connection with the head, from which the whole body through its ligaments and sinews must be governed and united if it is to grow in the divine way.

John Wesley New Testament

And not holding the head, from which all the body being nourished and knit together, by the joints and ligaments, increaseth with the increase of God.

Julia Smith Translation

And not having power over the Head, from whom all the body, by all the senses of touch and connections furnished and joined together, increases with the increase of God.

King James 2000

And not holding the Head, from whom all the body by joints and ligaments having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increases with the increase of God.

Lexham Expanded Bible

and not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by the ligaments and sinews, grows with the growth of God.

Modern King James verseion

and not holding the Head, from whom all the body, having been supplied through the joints and bands, and having been joined together, will grow with the growth of God.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

and holdeth not the head: whereof all the body by joints and couples receiveth nourishment, and is knit together, and increaseth with the increasing that cometh of God.

Moffatt New Testament

instead of keeping in touch with that Head under whom the entire Body, supplied with joints and sinews and thus compacted, grows with growth divine.

Montgomery New Testament

instead of keeping connection with the Head from the whole body draws nourishment for all its needs by the joints which bind it; and is knit together, and grows with a divine growth.

NET Bible

He has not held fast to the head from whom the whole body, supported and knit together through its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.

New Heart English Bible

and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God's growth.

Noyes New Testament

and not holding fast the Head, from which the whole body, supported and compacted by means of the joints and ligaments, groweth with an increase wrought by God.

Sawyer New Testament

and not holding the head, from which all the body being supplied and compacted by means of joints and tendons grows with an increase of God.

The Emphasized Bible

And not holding fast the head: from which, all the body, through means of its joints and uniting bands, receiving supply, and connecting itself together, groweth with the growth of God.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

and not firmly attached to the head, from which the whole body, by joints and ligaments, harmoniously adjusted and closely compacted, increaseth with increase from God.

Twentieth Century New Testament

He fails to maintain union with the Head, to whom it is due that the whole body, nourished and knit together by the contact and Keynesian of every part, grows with a divine growth.

Webster

And not holding the head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.

Weymouth New Testament

Such a one does not keep his hold upon Christ, the Head, from whom the Body, in all its parts nourished and strengthened by its points of contact and its connections, grows with a divine growth.

Williams New Testament

Such a person is not continuing in connection with the Head, from which the whole body, when supplied and united through its joints and sinews, grows with a growth that God produces.

World English Bible

and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God's growth.

Worrell New Testament

and not holding fast the Head from Whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, increases with the increase of God.

Worsley New Testament

and not adhering to the head, from which all the body, being supplied and held together as by joints and bands, increaseth with the increase of God.

Youngs Literal Translation

and not holding the head, from which all the body -- through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit together -- may increase with the increase of God.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

not
οὐ 
Ou 
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032

κρατέω 
Krateo 
Usage: 33

the Head
κεφαλή 
Kephale 
Usage: 63

ἐκ ἐξ 
Ek 
of, from, out of, by, on, with,
Usage: 709

ὅς ἥ ὅ 
Hos 
Usage: 980

all
πᾶς 
Pas 
Usage: 704

the body
σῶμα 
Soma 
Usage: 123

by
διά 
Dia 
by, through, with, for, for ... sake, therefore , for this cause , because,
Usage: 527

ἁφή 
Haphe 
Usage: 2

and



and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
Usage: 0

σύνδεσμος 
sundesmos 
Usage: 4

ἐπιχορηγέω 
Epichoregeo 
Usage: 5

συμβιβάζω 
Sumbibazo 
Usage: 6

increaseth with
αὐξάνω 
Auxano 
Usage: 17

the increase
αὔξησις 
Auxesis 
Usage: 2

Devotionals

Devotionals about Colossians 2:19

Images Colossians 2:19

Prayers for Colossians 2:19

Context Readings

Beware Of Requirements Invented By Humans

18 Let no one fraudulently deprive you of your prize, doing his own will in humility and worship of angels, entering into things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh, 19 and not holding fast the head, from whom all the body, ministered to and united together by the joints and bands, increases with the increase of God. 20 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?



Cross References

Ephesians 4:15-16

but, holding the truth in love, we may grow up to him in all things, who is the head, the Christ:

Job 19:9-12

He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

Psalm 139:15-16

My bones were not hidden from thee when I was made in secret, curiously wrought in the lower parts of the earth.

John 15:4-6

Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abide in the vine, thus neither can ye unless ye abide in me.

John 17:21

that they may be all one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

Acts 4:32

And the heart and soul of the multitude of those that had believed were one, and not one said that anything of what he possessed was his own, but all things were common to them;

Romans 11:17

Now if some of the branches have been broken out, and thou, being a wild olive tree, hast been grafted in amongst them, and hast become a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,

Romans 12:4-5

For, as in one body we have many members, but all the members have not the same office;

1 Corinthians 1:10

Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all say the same thing, and that there be not among you divisions; but that ye be perfectly united in the same mind and in the same opinion.

1 Corinthians 3:6

I have planted; Apollos watered; but God has given the increase.

1 Corinthians 10:16-17

The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of the Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of the Christ?

1 Corinthians 12:12-27

For even as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ.

Galatians 1:6-9

I wonder that ye thus quickly change, from him that called you in Christ's grace, to a different gospel,

Galatians 5:2-4

Behold, I, Paul, say to you, that if ye are circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

Ephesians 1:22

and has put all things under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the assembly,

Ephesians 4:3

using diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the uniting bond of peace.

Ephesians 5:29

For no one has ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as also the Christ the assembly:

Philippians 1:27

Only conduct yourselves worthily of the glad tidings of the Christ, in order that whether coming and seeing you, or absent, I may hear of what concerns you, that ye stand firm in one spirit, with one soul, labouring together in the same conflict with the faith of the glad tidings;

Philippians 2:2-5

fulfil my joy, that ye may think the same thing, having the same love, joined in soul, thinking one thing;

Colossians 1:10

so as to walk worthily of the Lord unto all well-pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing by the true knowledge of God;

Colossians 1:18

And he is the head of the body, the assembly; who is the beginning, firstborn from among the dead, that he might have the first place in all things:

Colossians 2:2

to the end that their hearts may be encouraged, being united together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the full knowledge of the mystery of God;

Colossians 2:6-9

As therefore ye have received the Christ, Jesus the Lord, walk in him,

1 Thessalonians 3:12

But you, may the Lord make to exceed and abound in love toward one another, and toward all, even as we also towards you,

1 Thessalonians 4:10

For also ye do this towards all the brethren in the whole of Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound still more,

2 Thessalonians 1:3

We ought to thank God always for you, brethren, even as it is meet, because your faith increases exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all towards one another abounds;

1 Timothy 2:4-6

who desires that all men should be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.

1 Peter 3:8

Finally, be all of one mind, sympathising, full of brotherly love, tender hearted, humble minded;

2 Peter 3:18

but grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

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