Colossians 2:20
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?
Colossians 2:8
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,
Colossians 2:14
having erased the charges that were brought against us, along with their obligations that were hostile to us. He took those charges away when he nailed them to the cross.
Colossians 2:16
Therefore, let no one judge you in matters of food and drink or with respect to a festival, a New Moon, or Sabbath days.
Galatians 4:3
It was the same way with us. While we were children, we were slaves to the basic principles of the world.
John 15:19
If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as one of its own. But because you do not belong to the world and I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.
John 17:14-16
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I don't belong to the world.
Romans 6:2-11
Of course not! How can we who died as far as sin is concerned go on living in it?
Romans 7:4-6
In the same way, my brothers, through the Messiah's body you also died as far as the Law is concerned, so that you may belong to another person, the one who was raised from the dead, and may bear fruit for God.
2 Corinthians 10:3
Of course, we are living in the world, but we do not wage war in a world-like way.
Galatians 2:19-20
For through the Law I died to the Law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with the Messiah.
Galatians 4:9-12
But now that you know God, or rather have been known by God, how can you turn back again to those powerless and bankrupt basic principles? Why do you want to become their slaves all over again?
Galatians 6:14
But may I never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world!
Ephesians 2:15
He rendered the Law inoperative, along with its commandments and regulations, thus creating in himself one new humanity from the two, thereby making peace,
Colossians 3:3
For you have died, and your life has been safely guarded by the Messiah in God.
Hebrews 13:9
Stop being carried away by all kinds of unusual teachings, for it is good that the heart be strengthened by grace, not by food laws that have never helped those who follow them.
James 4:4
You adulterers! Don't you know that friendship with the world means hostility with God? So whoever wants to be a friend of this world is an enemy of God.
1 Peter 4:1-3
Therefore, since the Messiah suffered in a mortal body, you, too, must arm yourselves with the same determination, because the person who has suffered in a mortal body has stopped sinning,
1 John 5:19
We know that we are from God and that the whole world lies under the control of the evil one.