Colossians 2:20

If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,

Colossians 2:8

Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ:

Colossians 2:14

having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out that way, nailing it to the cross;

Colossians 2:16

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a sabbath day:

Galatians 4:3

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world:

John 15:19

If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

John 17:14-16

I have given them thy word; and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Romans 6:2-11

God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?

Romans 7:4-6

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another, even to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.

2 Corinthians 10:3

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh

Galatians 2:19-20

For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God.

Galatians 4:9-12

but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again?

Galatians 6:14

But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

Ephesians 2:15

having abolished in the flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; that he might create in himself of the two one new man,'so making peace;

Colossians 3:3

For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

Hebrews 13:9

Be not carried away by divers and strange teachings: for it is good that the heart be established by grace; not by meats, wherein they that occupied themselves were not profited.

James 4:4

Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.

1 Peter 4:1-3

Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind; for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

1 John 5:19

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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,

General references

Bible References

If

Colossians 3:3
For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Romans 6:2
God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?
Romans 7:4
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another, even to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.
Galatians 2:19
For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God.
Galatians 6:14
But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
1 Peter 4:1
Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind; for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

From

Colossians 2:8
Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ:
Ephesians 2:15
having abolished in the flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; that he might create in himself of the two one new man,'so making peace;

Living

John 15:19
If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
John 17:14
I have given them thy word; and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
2 Corinthians 10:3
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh
James 4:4
Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.
1 John 5:19
We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in the evil one.

Subject

Colossians 2:14
having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out that way, nailing it to the cross;
Galatians 4:3
So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world:
Hebrews 13:9
Be not carried away by divers and strange teachings: for it is good that the heart be established by grace; not by meats, wherein they that occupied themselves were not profited.

General references

Leviticus 11:24
And by these ye shall become unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcass of them shall be unclean until the even;
Luke 5:38
But new wine must be put into fresh wine-skins.

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