Colossians 2:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ If with Christ you died to the elemental principles of the world, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations,

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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?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ If then you be dead with Christ from the elements of this world, why do you yet decree as though living in the world?

Colossians 2:20 Cross References

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

2 Corinthians 10:3

Indeed, we live as humans but do not wage war according to human standards,

Galatians 4:3

So with us; while we were minors, we were enslaved to the elemental principles of the world.

Galatians 6:14

May I never boast of anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.

Ephesians 2:15

abolishing the law with its commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace,

Colossians 2:14

erasing the record that stood against us with its legal demands. He set this aside, nailing it to the cross.

Colossians 2:16

Therefore, do not let anyone condemn you in matters of food or drink or of observing festivals, new moons, or Sabbaths.

Colossians 2:21

“Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”?

Colossians 2:8

Watch out that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental principles 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 all 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 observe them.

James 4:4

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

1 John 5:19

We know that we are God’s children and that the whole world lies under the power of the evil one.