Colossians 2:20

New American Bible - revised edition

If you died with Christ to the elemental powers of the world, why do you submit to regulations as if you were still living in the world?

Cross References

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you.

2 Corinthians 10:3

For, although we are in the flesh, we do not battle according to the flesh,

Galatians 4:3

In the same way we also, when we were not of age, were enslaved to the elemental powers of the world.

Galatians 6:14

But may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Ephesians 2:15

abolishing the law with its commandments and legal claims, that he might create in himself one new person in place of the two, thus establishing peace,

Colossians 2:14

obliterating the bond against us, with its legal claims, which was opposed to us, he also removed it from our midst, nailing it to the cross;

Colossians 2:16

Let no one, then, pass judgment on you in matters of food and drink or with regard to a festival or new moon or sabbath.

Colossians 2:21

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

Colossians 2:8

See to it that no one captivate you with an empty, seductive philosophy according to human tradition, according to the elemental powers of the world and not according to Christ. Sovereign Role of Christ.

Colossians 3:3

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

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teaching. It is good to have our hearts strengthened by grace and not by foods, which do not benefit those who live by them.

James 4:4

Adulterers! Do you not know that to be a lover of the world means enmity with God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a lover of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

1 John 5:19

We know that we belong to God, and the whole world is under the power of the evil one.