Colossians 2:20

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Colossians 2:8

Watch out that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental principles of the world, and not according to Christ.

Colossians 2:16

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

Galatians 4:3

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

Colossians 2:14

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

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.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good 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.

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.

2 Corinthians 10:3

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

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.

Ephesians 2:15

abolishing 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 3:3

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

Colossians 2:21

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