Colossians 2:20

James Moffatt - New Testament

As you died with Christ to the Elemental spirits of the world, why live as if you still belonged to the world? Why submit to rules and regulations like

Cross References

Colossians 2:8

Beware of anyone getting hold of you by means of a theosophy which is specious make-believe, on the lines of human tradition, corresponding to the Elemental spirits of the world and not to Christ.

Colossians 2:16

So let no one take you to task on questions of eating and drinking or in connexion with the observance of festivals or new moons or sabbaths.

Galatians 4:3

So with us. When we were under age, we lived under the thraldom of the Elemental spirits of the world;

Colossians 2:14

He cancelled the regulations that stood against us — all these obligations he set aside when he nailed them to the cross,

1 John 5:19

We know that we belong to God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil One.

Hebrews 13:9

Never let yourselves be carried away with a variety of novel doctrines; for the right thing is to have one's heart strengthened by grace, not by the eating of food — that has never been any use to those who have had recourse to it.

James 4:4

(Wanton creatures! do you not know that the world's friendship means enmity to God? Whoever, then, chooses to be the world's friend, turns enemy to God.

Galatians 6:14

But no boasting for me, none except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I crucified to the world.

2 Corinthians 10:3

I do live in the flesh, but I do not make war as the flesh does;

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, the world would love what it owned; it is because you do not belong to the world, because I have chosen you from the world, that the world hates you.

Ephesians 2:15

in his own flesh he put an end to the feud of the Law with its code of commands, so as to make peace by the creation of a new Man in himself out of both parties,

Colossians 3:3

for you died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Colossians 2:21

"Hands off this!" "Taste not that!" "Touch not this!" —