If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.
Colossians 2:20 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised If you died with Christ to the elements of this world, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations: Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If then you have died with Christ to material ways of looking at things and have escaped from the world's crude and elemental notions and teachings of externalism, why do you live as if you still belong to the world? [Why do you submit to rules and regulations?–such as] American Standard Version (1901) If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances, Common English Bible If you died with Christ to the way the world thinks and acts, why do you submit to rules and regulations as though you were living in the world? Catholic Public Domain Version So then, if you have died with Christ to the influences of this world, why do you still make decisions as if you were living in the world? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If then you be dead with Christ from the elements of this world, why do you yet decree as though living in the world? |
If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.
For although we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh,
In the same way we also, when we were children, were in slavery under the elements of the world.
But as for me, I will never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. The world has been crucified to me through the cross, and I to the world.
he made of no effect the law consisting of commands and expressed in regulations, so that he might create in himself one new man from the two, resulting in peace.
He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it away by nailing it to the cross.
Therefore, don’t let anyone judge you in regard to food and drink or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day.
Be careful that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit based on human tradition, based on the elements of the world, rather than Christ.
Don’t be led astray by various kinds of strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be established by grace and not by food regulations, since those who observe them have not benefited.
You adulterous people! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility towards God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God.
We know that we are of God, and the whole world is under the sway of the evil one.