Colossians 2:21
Good News Translation
"Don't handle this," "Don't taste that," "Don't touch the other"?

New Revised Standard Version
“Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch”?

Contemporary English Version
"Don't handle this. Don't taste that. Don't touch this."?

New American Bible
“Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Touch not: taste not: handle not.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Touch not: taste not: handle not.

Genesis 3:3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of paradise, God hath commanded us that we should not eat; and that we should not touch it, lest perhaps we die.

Isaiah 52:11 Depart, depart, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing: go out of the midst of her, be ye clean, you that carry the vessels of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 6:17 Wherefore: Go out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing:

1 Timothy 4:3 Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and by them that have known the truth.

Context
Alive in Christ
20If then you be dead with Christ from the elements of this world, why do you yet decree as though living in the world? 21Touch not: taste not: handle not. 22Which all are unto destruction by the very use, according to the precepts and doctrines of men.…
Cross References
Colossians 2:20
If then you be dead with Christ from the elements of this world, why do you yet decree as though living in the world?

Colossians 2:22
Which all are unto destruction by the very use, according to the precepts and doctrines of men.

Colossians 2:20
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