Colossians 2:21
(Touch not; taste not; handle not;
KJV
μὴ ἅψῃ μηδὲ γεύσῃ μηδὲ θίγῃς,
Greek NT
Ne tetigeritis, neque gustaveritis, neque contrectaveritis :
Vulgate
Handle not, nor taste, nor touch
ASV
Touch not: taste not: handle not.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
5 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γεύομαι
geuomai
verb · 15×
θιγγάνω
thiggano
verb · 3×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
μηδέ
mede
conjunction · 54×
ἅπτομαι
aptomai
verb · 35×
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. Introduction to the Feeding of the Five Thousand. And when even had come His disciples came to Him, Matthew 14:15 that is, at the consummation of the age in regard to which we may fitly say what is found in the Epistle of John, It is the last hour. 1 John 2:18 They, not yet understanding what the Word was about to do, say to Him, The place is desert, Matthew 14:15 seeing the…
That with respect to the commands and ordinances of our Lord Jesus Christ, where the Scriptures are silent as to the express time or manner of performance, if any such there be, no human authority has power to interfere, in order to supply the supposed deficiency by making laws for the Church.
Cross-references
- 1Tim 4:3 — Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
- 1Tim 4:8 — For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
- 2Cor 6:17 — Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
- Gen 3:3 — But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
- Gen 9:3 — Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
- Isa 52:11 — Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.
- Mark 7:3 — For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
- Mark 7:19 — Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?