Colossians 2:14

He has destroyed ¹  what was against us, a certificate of indebtedness ²  expressed in decrees opposed to us. He has taken it away by nailing it to the cross.

Nu 5:23; Ne 4:5; Es 3:12; Es 8:8; Ps 51:1,9; Isa 43:25; Isa 44:22; Isa 57:14; Da 5:7,8; Lu 1:6; Ac 3:19; Ga 4:1-4; Eph 2:14-16; Col 2:20; 2Th 2:7; Heb 7:18; Heb 8:13; Heb 9:9,10; Heb 10:8,9

¹ tn The participle ἐξαλείψας (exaleiyas) is a temporal adverbial participle of contemporaneous time related to the previous verb συνεζωοποίησεν (sunezwopoihsen), but has been translated as a finite verb because of the complexity of the Greek sentence and the tendency of contemporary English to use shorter sentences. For the meaning “destroy” see BDAG 344-45 s.v. ἐξαλείφω 2.

² tn On the translation of χειρόγραφον (ceirografon), see BDAG 1083 s.v. which refers to it as “a certificate of indebtedness.”