Colossians 2:20

Catholic Public Domain Version

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?

Cross References

John 15:19

If you had been of the world, the world would love what is its own. Yet truly, you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world; because of this, the world hates you.

2 Corinthians 10:3

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

Galatians 4:3

So also we, when we were children, were subservient to the influences of the world.

Galatians 6:14

But far be it from me to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

Ephesians 2:15

emptying the law of commandments by decree, so that he might join these two, in himself, into one new man, making peace

Colossians 2:14

and wiping away the handwriting of the decree which was against us, which was contrary to us. And he has taken this away from your midst, affixing it to the Cross.

Colossians 2:16

Therefore, let no one judge you as concerns food or drink, or a particular feast day, or feast days of new moons, or of Sabbaths.

Colossians 2:21

Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle these things,

Colossians 2:8

See to it that no one deceives you through philosophy and empty falsehoods, as found in the traditions of men, in accord with the influences of the world, and not in accord with Christ.

Colossians 3:3

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

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be led away by changing or strange doctrines. And it is best for the heart to be sustained by grace, not by foods. For the latter have not been as useful to those who walked by them.

James 4:4

You adulterers! Do you not know that the friendship of this world is hostile to God? Therefore, whoever has chosen to be a friend of this world has been made into an enemy of God.

1 John 5:19

We know that we are of God, and that the entire world is established in wickedness.