Colossians 2:20
As you died with Christ to the Elemental spirits of the world, why live as if you still belonged to the world? Why submit to rules and regulations like
Colossians 2:8
Beware of anyone getting hold of you by means of a theosophy which is specious make-believe, on the lines of human tradition, corresponding to the Elemental spirits of the world and not to Christ.
Colossians 2:14
He cancelled the regulations that stood against us ??all these obligations he set aside when he nailed them to the cross,
Colossians 2:16
So let no one take you to task on questions of eating and drinking or in connexion with the observance of festivals or new moons or sabbaths.
Galatians 4:3
So with us. When we were under age, we lived under the thraldom of the Elemental spirits of the world;
John 15:19
If you belonged to the world, the world would love what it owned; it is because you do not belong to the world, because I have chosen you from the world, that the world hates you.
John 17:14-16
I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.
Romans 6:2-11
Never! How can we live in sin any longer, when we died to sin?
Romans 7:4-6
It is the same in your case, my brothers. The crucified body of Christ made you dead to the Law, so that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead that we might be fruitful to God.
2 Corinthians 10:3
I do live in the flesh, but I do not make war as the flesh does;
Galatians 2:19-20
For through the Law I died to the Law that I might live for God;
Galatians 4:9-12
but now that you know God ??or rather, are known by God ??how is it you are turning back again to the weakness and poverty of the Elemental spirits? Why do you want to be enslaved all over again by them?
Galatians 6:14
But no boasting for me, none except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I crucified to the world.
Ephesians 2:15
in his own flesh he put an end to the feud of the Law with its code of commands, so as to make peace by the creation of a new Man in himself out of both parties,
Colossians 3:3
for you died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Hebrews 13:9
Never let yourselves be carried away with a variety of novel doctrines; for the right thing is to have one's heart strengthened by grace, not by the eating of food ??that has never been any use to those who have had recourse to it.
James 4:4
(Wanton creatures! do you not know that the world's friendship means enmity to God? Whoever, then, chooses to be the world's friend, turns enemy to God.
1 Peter 4:1-3
Well, as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, let this very conviction that he who has suffered in the flesh gets quit of sin,
1 John 5:19
We know that we belong to God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil One.