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Alive with Christ

Colossians 2:21

In 9 translations

BSB
“Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”?
KJV
(Touch not; taste not; handle not;
WEB
“Don’t handle, nor taste, nor touch”
ASV
Handle not, nor taste, nor touch
LSV
you may not touch, nor taste, nor handle—
YLT
— thou mayest not touch, nor taste, nor handle —
DBY
Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch,
DRC
Touch not, taste not, handle not:
GNV
As, Touch not, Taste not, Handle not.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
Μὴ ἅψῃ μηδὲ γεύσῃ μηδὲ θίγῃς,
RP2018
Μὴ ἅψῃ, μηδὲ γεύσῃ, μηδὲ θίγῃς-
TR-Boyd
Μὴ ἅψῃ, μηδὲ γεύσῃ, μηδὲ θίγῃς —
SCR1894
μη αψη μηδε γευση μηδε θιγης

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • 1 Timothy 4:3They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from certain foods that God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
  • Isaiah 52:11Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.
  • Genesis 3:3but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.’”
  • 2 Corinthians 6:17“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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