Colossians 2:20
If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit to them as though you lived in the world?
Colossians 2:8
Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you through an empty, deceitful philosophy that is according to human traditions and the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
Colossians 2:14
He has destroyed what was against us, a certificate of indebtedness expressed in decrees opposed to us. He has taken it away by nailing it to the cross.
Colossians 2:16
Therefore do not let anyone judge you with respect to food or drink, or in the matter of a feast, new moon, or Sabbath days --
Galatians 4:3
So also we, when we were minors, were enslaved under the basic forces of the world.
John 15:19
If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to 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 do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
Romans 6:2-11
Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
Romans 7:4-6
So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God.
2 Corinthians 10:3
For though we live as human beings, we do not wage war according to human standards,
Galatians 2:19-20
For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.
Galatians 4:9-12
But now that you have come to know God (or rather to be known by God), how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless basic forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?
Galatians 6:14
But may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Ephesians 2:15
when he nullified in his flesh the law of commandments in decrees. He did this to create in himself one new man out of two, 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 all sorts of strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals, which have never benefited those who participated in them.
James 4:4
Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world's friend makes himself God's enemy.
1 Peter 4:1-3
So, since Christ suffered in the flesh, you also arm yourselves with the same attitude, because the one who has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin,
1 John 5:19
We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.