Colossians 2:20 - The Scriptures 1998

²⁰ If, then, you died with Messiah from the elementary matters of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves 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?

Colossians 2:20 Cross References

John 15:19

“If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, for that reason the world hates you.

2 Corinthians 10:3

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

Galatians 4:3

So we also, when we were children, were under the elementary matters of the world, being enslaved.

Galatians 6:14

And for me, let it not be that I should boast except in the stake of our Master יהושע  Messiah, through whom the world has been impaled to me, and I to the world.

Ephesians 2:15

having abolished in His flesh the enmity – the Torah of the commands in dogma – so as to create in Himself one renewed man from the two, thus making peace,

Colossians 2:14

having blotted out the certificate of debt against us – by the dogmas – which stood against us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the stake.

Colossians 2:16

Let no one therefore judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths –

Colossians 2:21

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

Colossians 2:8

See to it that no one makes a prey of you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary matters of the world, and not according to Messiah.

Colossians 3:3

For you have died, and your life has been hidden with Messiah in Elohim.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be borne about by various and strange teachings.For it is good for the heart to be established by favour, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.

James 4:4

Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with Elohim?Whoever therefore intends to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of Elohim.

1 John 5:19

We know that we are of Elohim, and all the world lies in the wicked one.