Colossians 2:20

American King James Version (1999)

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

Cross References

John 15:19

If you were of the world, the world would love his own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

2 Corinthians 10:3

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:

Galatians 4:3

Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

Galatians 6:14

But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

Ephesians 2:15

Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of two one new man, so making peace;

Colossians 2:14

Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

Colossians 2:16

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

Colossians 2:21

(Touch not; taste not; handle not; Col 2:22: Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?

Colossians 2:8

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Colossians 3:3

For you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

Hebrews 13:9

Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

James 4:4

You adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

1 John 5:19

And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in wickedness.