Colossians 2:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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,

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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 ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

2 Corinthians 10:3

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

Galatians 4:3

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world:

Galatians 6:14

But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

Ephesians 2:15

having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; that he might create in himself of the twain one new man, so making peace;

Colossians 2:14

having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

Colossians 2:16

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a sabbath day:

Colossians 2:21

Handle not, nor taste, nor touch

Colossians 2:8

Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ:

Colossians 3:3

For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

Hebrews 13:9

Be not carried away by divers and strange teachings: for it is good that the heart be stablished by grace; not by meats, wherein they that occupied themselves were not profited.

James 4:4

Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.

1 John 5:19

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