'Basic Principles of the World' in the Bible

It was the same way with us. While we were children, we were slaves to the basic principles of the world.

See to it that no one enslaves you through philosophy and empty deceit according to human tradition, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to the Messiah,

If you have died with the Messiah to the basic principles of the world, why are you submitting to its decrees as though you still lived in the world?