Colossians 2:20

Modern English Version

Therefore, if you died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you subject yourself to legalistic rules?

Cross References

John 15:19

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, the world therefore hates you.

2 Corinthians 10:3

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

Galatians 4:3

So when we were children, we were in bondage to the elements of the world.

Galatians 6:14

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

Ephesians 2:15

by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of the commandments contained in ordinances, that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, thus making peace,

Colossians 2:14

He blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us and contrary to us, and He took it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.

Colossians 2:16

Therefore let no one judge you regarding food, or drink, or in respect of a holy day or new moon or sabbath days.

Colossians 2:21

“Do not touch! Do not taste! Do not handle!”

Colossians 2:8

Beware lest anyone captivate you through philosophy and vain deceit, in the tradition of men and the elementary principles of the world, and not after Christ.

Colossians 3:3

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

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away with diverse and strange teachings. It is a good thing that the heart be strengthened with grace, not with foods, which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.

James 4:4

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

1 John 5:19

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