Colossians 2:16
Good News Translation
So let no one make rules about what you eat or drink or about holy days or the New Moon Festival or the Sabbath.

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore do not let anyone condemn you in matters of food and drink or of observing festivals, new moons, or sabbaths.

Contemporary English Version
Don't let anyone tell you what you must eat or drink. Don't let them say you must celebrate the New Moon festival, the Sabbath, or any other festival.

New American Bible
Let no one, then, pass judgment on you in matters of food and drink or with regard to a festival or new moon or sabbath.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of a festival day or of the new moon or of the sabbaths,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of a festival day or of the new moon or of the sabbaths,

judge.

Romans 14:3,10,13 Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not: and he that eateth not, let him not judge him that eateth. For God hath taken him to him. . . .

1 Corinthians 10:28-31 But if any man say: This has been sacrificed to idols: do not eat of it, for his sake that told it and for conscience' sake. . . .

Galatians 2:12,13 For before that some came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them who were of the circumcision. . . .

James 4:11 Detract not one another, my brethren. He that detracteth his brother, or he that judgeth his brother, detracteth the law and judgeth the law. But if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

in meat, etc.

Leviticus 11:2-47 Say to the children of Israel: These are the animals which you are to eat of all the living things of the earth. . . .

Leviticus 17:10-15 If any man whosoever of the house of Israel, and of the strangers that sojourn among them, eat blood, I will set my face against his soul, and will cut him off from among his people. . . .

Deuteronomy 14:3 Eat not the things that are unclean.

*etc:

Ezekiel 4:14 And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God, behold my soul hath not been defiled, and from my infancy even till now, I have not eaten any thing that died of itself, or was torn by beasts, and no unclean flesh hath entered into my mouth.

Matthew 15:11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man: but what cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

Acts 11:3-18 Saying: Why didst thou go in to men uncircumcised and didst eat with them? . . .

Acts 15:20 But that we write unto them, that they refrain themselves from the pollutions of idols and from fornication and from things strangled and from blood.

Romans 14:2,6,14-17,20,21 For one believeth that he may eat all things: but he that is weak, let him eat herbs. . . .

1 Corinthians 8:7-13 But there is not knowledge in every one. For some until this present, with conscience of the idol, eat as a thing sacrificed to an idol: and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. . . .

1 Timothy 4:3-5 Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and by them that have known the truth. . . .

Hebrews 9:10 And divers washings and justices of the flesh laid on them until the time of correction.

Hebrews 13:9 Be not led away with various and strange doctrines. For it is best that the heart be established with grace, not with meats: which have not profited those that walk in them.

in respect.

Leviticus 23:1-44 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: . . .

Numbers 28:1-29:40 The Lord also said to Moses: . . .

Deuteronomy 16:1-17 Observe the month of new corn, which is the first of the spring, that thou mayst celebrate the phase to the Lord thy God: because in this month the Lord thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night. . . .

Nehemiah 8:9 And Nehemiah (he is Athersatha) and Esdras the priest and scribe, and the Levites who interpreted to all the people, said: This is a holy day to the Lord our God: do not mourn, nor weep: for all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.

Nehemiah 10:31 And if the people of the land bring in things to sell, or any things for use, to sell them on the sabbath day, that we would not buy them on the sabbath, or on the holy day. And that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every hand.

Psalm 42:4 These things I remembered, and poured out my soul in me: for I shall go over into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even to the house of God: With the voice of joy and praise; the noise of one feasting.

Romans 14:5,6 For one judgeth between day and day: and another judgeth every day. Let every man abound in his own sense. . . .

the new.

Numbers 10:10 If at any time you shall have a banquet, and on your festival days, and on the first days of your months, you shall sound the trumpets over the holocausts, and the sacrifices of peace offerings, that they may be to you for a remembrance of your God. I am the Lord your God.

Numbers 28:11,14 And on the first day of the month you shall offer a holocaust to the Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old, without blemish, . . .

1 Samuel 20:5,18 And David said to Jonathan: Behold to morrow is the new moon, and I, according to custom, am wont to sit beside the king to eat: let me go then that I may be hid in the field till the evening of the third day. . . .

2 Kings 4:23 And he said to her: Why dost thou go to him? to day is neither new moon nor sabbath. She answered: I will go.

1 Chronicles 23:31 As well in the oblation of the holocausts of the Lord, as in the sabbaths and in the new moons, and the rest of the solemnities, according to the number and ceremonies prescribed for every thing, continually before the Lord.

Nehemiah 10:33 For the loaves of proposition, and for the continual sacrifice, and for a continual holocaust on the sabbaths, on the new moons, on the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offering: that atonement might be made for Israel, and for every use of the house of our God.

Psalm 81:3 Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, on the noted day of your solemnity.

Isaiah 1:13 Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination to me. The new moons, and the sabbaths and other festivals I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked.

Ezekiel 45:17 And the prince shall give the holocaust, and the sacrifice, and the libations on the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the sabbaths, and on all the solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall offer the sacrifice for sin, and the holocaust, and the peace offerings to make expiation for the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 46:1-3 Thus saith the Lord God: The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east, shall be shut the six days, on which work is done; but on the sabbath day it shall be opened, yea and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened. . . .

Amos 8:5 Hear this, you that crush the poor, and make the needy of the land to fail,

Galatians 4:10 You observe days and months and times, and years.

or of the sabbath.

Leviticus 16:31 For it is a sabbath of rest: and you shall afflict your souls by a perpetual religion.

Leviticus 23:3,24,32,39 Six days shall ye do work: the seventh day, because it is the rest of the sabbath, shall be called holy. You shall do no work on that day: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your habitations. . . .

Context
Alive in Christ
15And despoiling the principalities and powers, he hath exposed them confidently in open shew, triumphing over them in himself. 16Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of a festival day or of the new moon or of the sabbaths, 17Which are a shadow of things to come: but the body is of Christ.…
Cross References
Leviticus 23:2
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: These are the feasts of the Lord, which you shall call holy.

1 Chronicles 23:31
As well in the oblation of the holocausts of the Lord, as in the sabbaths and in the new moons, and the rest of the solemnities, according to the number and ceremonies prescribed for every thing, continually before the Lord.

2 Chronicles 31:3
And the king's part was, that of his proper substance the holocaust should be offered always morning and evening, and on the sabbaths, and the new moons and the other solemnities, as it is written in the law of Moses.

Nehemiah 10:33
For the loaves of proposition, and for the continual sacrifice, and for a continual holocaust on the sabbaths, on the new moons, on the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offering: that atonement might be made for Israel, and for every use of the house of our God.

Mark 2:27
And he said to them: The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.

Mark 7:19
Because it entereth not into his heart but goeth into his belly and goeth out into the privy, purging all meats?

Romans 14:3
Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not: and he that eateth not, let him not judge him that eateth. For God hath taken him to him.

Romans 14:5
For one judgeth between day and day: and another judgeth every day. Let every man abound in his own sense.

Romans 14:17
For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink: but justice and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

Galatians 4:10
You observe days and months and times, and years.

Colossians 2:20
If then you be dead with Christ from the elements of this world, why do you yet decree as though living in the world?

1 Timothy 4:3
Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and by them that have known the truth.

Hebrews 9:10
And divers washings and justices of the flesh laid on them until the time of correction.

Hebrews 13:9
Be not led away with various and strange doctrines. For it is best that the heart be established with grace, not with meats: which have not profited those that walk in them.

Colossians 2:15
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