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


In Context

12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

13 You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

14 wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

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

16 Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

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

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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:15having spoiled principalities and authorities, he made a show of them publicly, leading them in triumph by 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 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.