Colossians 2:22
Good News Translation
All these refer to things which become useless once they are used; they are only human rules and teachings.

New Revised Standard Version
All these regulations refer to things that perish with use; they are simply human commands and teachings.

Contemporary English Version
After these things are used, they are no longer good for anything. So why be bothered with the rules that humans have made up?

New American Bible
These are all things destined to perish with use; they accord with human precepts and teachings.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Which all are unto destruction by the very use, according to the precepts and doctrines of men.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Which all are unto destruction by the very use, according to the precepts and doctrines of men.

to.

Mark 7:18,19 And he saith to them: So are you also without knowledge? Understand you not that every thing from without entering into a man cannot defile him: . . .

John 6:27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that which endureth unto life everlasting, which the Son of man will give you. For him hath God, the Father, sealed.

1 Corinthians 6:13 Meat for the belly and the belly for the meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord: and the Lord for the body.

after.

Isaiah 29:13,18 And the Lord said: Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips glorify me, but their heart is far from me, and they have feared me with the commandment and doctrines of men: . . .

Daniel 11:37 And he shall make no account of the God of his fathers: and he shall follow the lust of women, and he shall not regard any gods: for he shall rise up against all things.

Matthew 15:3-9 But he answering, said to them: Why do you also transgress the commandment of God for your tradition? For God said: . . .

Mark 7:7-13 And in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines and precepts of men. . . .

Titus 1:14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn themselves away from the truth.

Revelation 17:18 And the woman which thou sawest is the great city which hath kingdom over the kings of the earth.

Context
Alive in Christ
21Touch not: taste not: handle not. 22Which all are unto destruction by the very use, according to the precepts and doctrines of men. 23Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in superstition and humility, and not sparing the body; not in any honour to the filling of the flesh.…
Cross References
Isaiah 29:13
And the Lord said: Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips glorify me, but their heart is far from me, and they have feared me with the commandment and doctrines of men:

Matthew 15:9
And in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines and commandments of men.

1 Corinthians 6:13
Meat for the belly and the belly for the meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord: and the Lord for the body.

Colossians 2:21
Touch not: taste not: handle not.

Titus 1:14
Not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn themselves away from the truth.

2 Peter 2:12
But these men, as irrational beasts, naturally tending to the snare and to destruction, blaspheming those things which they know not, shall perish in their corruption:

Colossians 2:21
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