Colossians 2:22
Modern Translations
New International Version
These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings.

New Living Translation
Such rules are mere human teachings about things that deteriorate as we use them.

English Standard Version
(referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to human precepts and teachings?

Berean Study Bible
These will all perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings.

New American Standard Bible
(which all refer to things destined to perish with use)—in accordance with the commandments and teachings of man?

NASB 1995
(which all refer to things destined to perish with use)-- in accordance with the commandments and teachings of men?

NASB 1977
(which all refer to things destined to perish with the using)—in accordance with the commandments and teachings of men?

Amplified Bible
(these things all perish with use)—in accordance with the commandments and teachings of men.

Christian Standard Bible
All these regulations refer to what is destined to perish by being used up; they are human commands and doctrines.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
All these regulations refer to what is destroyed by being used up; they are commands and doctrines of men.

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?

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
All of these things deal with objects that are only used up anyway.

International Standard Version
All of these things will be destroyed as they are used, because they are based on human commands and teachings.

NET Bible
These are all destined to perish with use, founded as they are on human commands and teachings.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?

New King James Version
which all concern things which perish with the using—according to the commandments and doctrines of men?

King James 2000 Bible
Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?

New Heart English Bible
(all of which perish with use), according to human commandments and teachings?

World English Bible
(all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?

American King James Version
Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?

American Standard Version
(all which things are to perish with the using), after the precepts and doctrines of men?

A Faithful Version
The use of all such things leads to corruption, according to the commandments and doctrines of men,

Darby Bible Translation
(things which are all for destruction in the using [of them]:) according to the injunctions and teachings of men,

English Revised Version
(all which things are to perish with the using), after the precepts and doctrines of men?

Webster's Bible Translation
Which all are to perish with the using;) according to the commandments and doctrines of men?

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Which al perish with the vsing, and are after the commandements and doctrines of men.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Which all be in corruption, in abusyng after the commaundementes and doctrines of men.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
All these thinges do hurte vnto men, because of the abuse of them, which abuse commeth onely of the commaundementes and doctrynes of men:

Tyndale Bible of 1526
which all perysshe wt the vsinge of the and are after the comaundmentes and doctrins of men
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
which are all for destruction with the using, after the commands and teachings of men,

Berean Literal Bible
which are all unto decay with the use, according to the precepts and teachings of men,

Young's Literal Translation
which are all for destruction with the using, after the commands and teachings of men,

Smith's Literal Translation
Which are all for corruption in the using;) according to the commands and doctrines of men?

Literal Emphasis Translation
Which are all unto deterioration in the using up, according to the precepts and teachings of men,

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
which all lead to destruction by their very use, in accord with the precepts and doctrines of men.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Which are the things that need to be destroyed, and are the commandments and the teachings of the sons of men?

Lamsa Bible
For these things are customs which are changeable and they are the commandments and doctrines of men.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
(all of which are for the destruction of those who use them,) according to the commandments and teachings of men;

Godbey New Testament
those things which are all unto destruction by use according to the commandments and teachings of the people?

Haweis New Testament
(all which things tend to corruption by abuse) according to the injunctions and doctrines of men?

Mace New Testament
which yet were all made to be consumed for our use, notwithstanding the injunctions and doctrines of men:

Weymouth New Testament
referring to things which are all intended to be used up and perish--in obedience to mere human injunctions and teachings?

Worrell New Testament
(which are all for destruction in the using), according to the commandments and teachings of men?

Worsley New Testament
handle not," which all tend to corruption in the using,) according to the commandments and doctrines of men?
















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