19and not holding fast the head, from whom all the body, ministered to and united together by the joints and bands, increases with the increase of God.


In Context

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.

18 Let no one fraudulently deprive you of your prize, doing his own will in humility and worship of angels, entering into things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

19 and not holding fast the head, from whom all the body, ministered to and united together by the joints and bands, increases with the increase of God.

20 If ye have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why as if alive in the world do ye subject yourselves to ordinances?

21 Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch,

Colossians 2:19 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:19And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:19He has lost connection with the Head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:19And not holding the head, from which the whole body, by joints and bands, being supplied with nourishment and compacted, groweth unto the increase of God.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:19and not holding fast the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, increasing with the increase of God.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:19and not holding fast the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, increaseth with the increase of God.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:19And not holding the head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:19and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God's growth.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:19and not holding the head, from which all the body — through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit together — may increase with the increase of God.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:19And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increases with the increase of God.