Colossians 2:20

If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit [to them] as [if] living in the world?

Colossians 2:8

Beware lest {anyone take you captive} through philosophy and empty deceit, according to {human tradition}, according to the elemental spirits of the world and not according to Christ,

Colossians 2:14

having destroyed the certificate of indebtedness in ordinances against us, which was hostile to us, and removed it out of the way [by] nailing it to the cross.

Colossians 2:16

Therefore do not let anyone judge you with reference to eating or drinking or participation in a feast or a new moon or a Sabbath,

Galatians 4:3

So also we, when we were children, we were enslaved under the elemental spirits of the world.

John 15:19

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this [reason] the world hates you.

John 17:14-16

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world just as I am not of the world.

Romans 6:2-11

May it never be! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

Romans 7:4-6

So then, my brothers, you also were brought to death with respect to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.

2 Corinthians 10:3

For [although we] are living in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh,

Galatians 2:19-20

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

Galatians 4:9-12

But now, [because you] have come to know God, or rather have come to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental spirits? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

Galatians 6:14

But [as] for me, may it never be [that I] boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Ephesians 2:15

invalidating the law of commandments in ordinances, in order that he might create the two in himself into one new man, [thus] making peace,

Colossians 3:3

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

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away by various and strange teachings, for [it is] good [for] the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods by which those who participate have not benefited.

James 4:4

Adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes [himself] an enemy of God.

1 Peter 4:1-3

Therefore, [because] Christ suffered in the flesh, you also equip yourselves with the same way of thinking, because the one who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

1 John 5:19

We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in [the power of] 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 you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Romans 6:2
May it never be! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
Romans 7:4
So then, my brothers, you also were brought to death with respect to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
Galatians 2:19
For through the law I died to the law, in order that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ,
Galatians 6:14
But [as] for me, may it never be [that I] boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
1 Peter 4:1
Therefore, [because] Christ suffered in the flesh, you also equip yourselves with the same way of thinking, because the one who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

From

Colossians 2:8
Beware lest {anyone take you captive} through philosophy and empty deceit, according to {human tradition}, according to the elemental spirits of the world and not according to Christ,
Ephesians 2:15
invalidating the law of commandments in ordinances, in order that he might create the two in himself into one new man, [thus] making peace,

Living

John 15:19
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this [reason] the world hates you.
John 17:14
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world just as I am not of the world.
2 Corinthians 10:3
For [although we] are living in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh,
James 4:4
Adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes [himself] an enemy of God.
1 John 5:19
We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in [the power of] the evil one.

Subject

Colossians 2:14
having destroyed the certificate of indebtedness in ordinances against us, which was hostile to us, and removed it out of the way [by] nailing it to the cross.
Galatians 4:3
So also we, when we were children, we were enslaved under the elemental spirits of the world.
Hebrews 13:9
Do not be carried away by various and strange teachings, for [it is] good [for] the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods by which those who participate have not benefited.

General references

Leviticus 11:24
And by these you shall become unclean--anyone who touches their dead body shall become unclean until the evening,
Luke 5:38
But new wine must be put into new wineskins.