Colossians 2:20

The English Standar Version

If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations --

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, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

2 Corinthians 10:3

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

Galatians 4:3

In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles[2] of the world.

Galatians 6:14

But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which[2] the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Ephesians 2:15

by abolishing 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

by canceling the record of debt that 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 takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits[1] of the world, 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 led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them.

James 4:4

You adulterous people! 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 from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.