Colossians 2:21

(Touch not; taste not; handle not;

(Touch {G680} not {G3361}; taste {G1089} not {G3366}; handle {G2345} not {G3366};

“Don’t touch this!” “Don’t eat that!” “Don’t handle the other!”

“Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”?

Handle not, nor taste, nor touch

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • 1 Timothy 4:3 (10 votes)

    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.

  • Isaiah 52:11 (5 votes)

    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.

  • Genesis 3:3 (5 votes)

    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.

  • 2 Corinthians 6:17 (2 votes)

    Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean [thing]; and I will receive you,