Colossians 2:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

Colossians 2:15 —

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Hebrews 2:14
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
Ephesians 4:8
Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
Matthew 12:29
Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.
John 12:31-32
Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. …
Isaiah 53:12
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 13-15)

The apostle here represents the privileges we Christians have above the Jews, which are very great. I. Christ’s death is our life: And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, Col. 2:13. A state of sin is a state of spiritual death. Those who are in sin are dead in sin. As the death of the body consists in its separation from the soul,…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

15. Alford, Ellicott, and others translate the Greek to accord with the translation of the same Greek, Col 3:9, “Stripping off from Himself the principalities and the powers: “ God put off from Himself the angels, that is, their ministry, not employing them to be promulgators of the Gospel in the way that He had given the law by their “disposition” or ministry (Ac 7:53; Ga 3:19; He 2:2, 5): God ma…