15having spoiled principalities and authorities, he made a show of them publicly, leading them in triumph by it.


In Context

12 buried with him in baptism, in which ye have been also raised with him through faith of the working of God who raised him from among the dead.

13 And you, being dead in offences and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has quickened together with him, having forgiven us all the offences;

14 having effaced the handwriting in ordinances which stood out against us, which was contrary to us, he has taken it also out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;

15 having spoiled principalities and authorities, he made a show of them publicly, leading them in triumph by it.

16 Let none therefore judge you in meat or in drink, or in matter of feast, or new moon, or sabbaths,

17 which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

Colossians 2:15 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:15[And] having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:15And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:15And despoiling the principalities and powers, he hath exposed them confidently in open shew, triumphing over them in himself.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:15having despoiled the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:15having put off from himself the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:15And having despoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:15having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:15having stripped the principalities and the authorities, he made a shew of them openly — having triumphed over them in it.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:15And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.