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What does Colossians 2:15 mean?

"having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it."

— Colossians 2:15 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

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You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

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wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

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having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

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Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

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which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.

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Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

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