Colossians 2:20 - The Text-Critical English New Testament

²⁰ If you have died with Christ to the elements of the world, why, as though you were living in the world, do you submit to regulations such as,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ If then you have died with Christ to material ways of looking at things and have escaped from the world's crude and elemental notions and teachings of externalism, why do you live as if you still belong to the world? [Why do you submit to rules and regulations?–such as]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,

Common English Bible

²⁰ If you died with Christ to the way the world thinks and acts, why do you submit to rules and regulations as though you were living in the world?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ So then, if you have died with Christ to the influences of this world, why do you still make decisions as if you were living in the world?

Colossians 2:20 Cross References

John 15:19

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you.

2 Corinthians 10:3

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.

Galatians 4:3

In the same way also, when we were children, we were enslaved to the elements of the world.

Galatians 6:14

But as for me, may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Ephesians 2:15

He did this by abolishing the law with its commandments and ordinances in order to make peace between the two groups and create in himself one new people.

Colossians 2:14

by blotting out the certificate of debt that stood against us with its legal demands; he took it away by nailing it to the cross.

Colossians 2:16

Therefore let no one judge you in regard to food or drink, or in the matter of a feast, a New Moon celebration, or a Sabbath day.

Colossians 2:21

“Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch”?

Colossians 2:8

Be careful that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men and the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

Colossians 3:3

For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away by various kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by regulations about food, which have not benefited those who follow them.

James 4:4

Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

1 John 5:19

We know that we are from God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.