Colossians 2:20

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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 were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

2 Corinthians 10:3

For though we live in the world we are not carrying on a worldly war,

Galatians 4:3

So with us; when we were children, we were slaves to the elemental spirits of the universe.

Galatians 6:14

But far be it from me to glory except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Ephesians 2:15

by abolishing in his flesh the law of commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,

Colossians 2:14

having canceled the bond which stood against us with its legal demands; this he set aside, nailing it to the cross.

Colossians 2:16

Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a sabbath.

Colossians 2:21

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

Colossians 2:8

See to it that no one makes a prey of you by 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 hid with Christ in God.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings; for it is well that the heart be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited their adherents.

James 4:4

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

1 John 5:19

We know that we are of God, and the whole world is in the power of the evil one.