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.


In Context

16 Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,

17 which are a shadow of the coming things, and the body is of the Christ;

18 let no one beguile you of your prize, delighting in humble-mindedness and in worship of the messengers, intruding into the things he hath not seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

19 and 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.

20 If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?

21 — thou mayest not touch, nor taste, nor handle —

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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:19and 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.

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 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.