Colossians 2:20

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the universe, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations,

Cross References

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world—therefore the world hates you.

2 Corinthians 10:3

Indeed, we live as human beings, but we do not wage war according to human standards;

Galatians 4:3

So with us; while we were minors, we were enslaved to the elemental spirits of the world.

Galatians 6:14

May I never boast of anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Ephesians 2:15

He has abolished the law with its commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace,

Colossians 2:14

erasing the record that stood against us with its legal demands. He set this aside, nailing it to the cross.

Colossians 2:16

Therefore do not let anyone condemn you in matters of food and drink or of observing festivals, new moons, or sabbaths.

Colossians 2:21

“Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch”?

Colossians 2:8

See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the universe, and not according to 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 teachings; for it is well for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by regulations about food, which have not benefited those who observe them.

James 4:4

Adulterers! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

1 John 5:19

We know that we are God's children, and that the whole world lies under the power of the evil one.