Colossians 2:21

Handle not, nor taste, nor touch

'HANDLE NOT' -'Do not handle this; Do not taste that; Do not touch that other thing' (Wey) 'The precepts here quoted are those of the false teachers..' (Gr. Ex. N.T. p. 534)

'NOR TOUCH' -May have reference to the false doctrine that marriage is actually. necessary evil or at least less spiritual than the unmarried state (1 Timothy 4:3). But verse 22 seems to infer that these forbidden things were more along the lines of food. The word "touch" here probably refers to the slightest contact. Thus the false teachers were saying, 'you are not to take certain meats into your hand, nor are you to taste them; nay, you are not even to touch them, though in the slightest degree--you are to keep from them hand, tongue, and even finger-tip.' (Eadie p. 194)