Colossians 2:20

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Colossians 2:20

If you died with the Messiah to the elemental forces of this world, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations:

Colossians 2:8

Be careful that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit based on human tradition, based on the elemental forces of the world, and not based on Christ.

Colossians 2:14

He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it out of the way by nailing it to the cross.

Colossians 2:16

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.

Galatians 4:3

In the same way we also, when we were children, were in slavery under the elemental forces of the world.

John 15:19

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.

John 17:14-16

I have given them Your word.
The world hated them
because they are not of the world,
as I am not of the world.

Romans 6:2-11

Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

Therefore, my brothers, you also were put to death in relation to the law through the crucified body of the Messiah, so that you may belong to another—to Him who was raised from the dead—that we may bear fruit for God.

2 Corinthians 10:3

For though we live in the body, we do not wage war in an unspiritual way,

Galatians 2:19-20

For through the law I have died to the law, so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ

Galatians 4:9-12

But now, since you know God, or rather have become known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and bankrupt elemental forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

Galatians 6:14

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.

Ephesians 2:15

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.

Colossians 3:3

For you have died, and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God.

Hebrews 13:9

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 foods, since those involved in them have not benefited.

James 4:4

Adulteresses! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the world’s friend becomes God’s enemy.

1 Peter 4:1-3

Therefore, since Christ suffered in the flesh, equip yourselves also with the same resolve—because the one who suffered in the flesh has finished with sin—

1 John 5:19

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

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Summary

Colossians 2:20

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,

If

From

Colossians 2:8

Ephesians 2:15

Living

1 John 5:19

Subject

Colossians 2:14

Galatians 4:3

Hebrews 13:9

General references

Leviticus 11:24

Luke 5:38

Bible References

If

For you have died, and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God.

Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

For through the law I have died to the law, so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ

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.

Therefore, since Christ suffered in the flesh, equip yourselves also with the same resolve—because the one who suffered in the flesh has finished with sin—

From

Be careful that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit based on human tradition, based on the elemental forces of the world, and not based on Christ.

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.

Living

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.

I have given them Your word.
The world hated them
because they are not of the world,

as I am not of the world.

For though we live in the body, we do not wage war in an unspiritual way,

Adulteresses!

Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the world’s friend becomes God’s enemy.

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

Subject

He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it out of the way by nailing it to the cross.

In the same way we also, when we were children, were in slavery under the elemental forces of the world.

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 foods, since those involved in them have not benefited.

General references

“These will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,

But new wine should be put into fresh wineskins.