Colossians 2:20

If therefore you died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why do you practice ordinances as living in the world,??21 you shall not touch, you shall not taste, you shall not feel,??22 all which are to perish in the using??ccording to the commandments and instructions of men?

Colossians 2:8

See that no one leads you off as a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

Colossians 2:14

having blotted out what was written by the hand in ordinances which was against us, and has taken it away from between [us], having nailed it to the cross;

Colossians 2:16

Let no man therefore judge you in eating and in drinking, or in respect to a feast, or new moon, or sabbath,

Galatians 4:3

So also we, when we were children, were in servitude under the rudiments of the world;

John 15:19

If you were of this world, the world would be a friend to its own; but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

John 17:14-16

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

Romans 6:2-11

By no means. How shall we who died to sin any longer live in it?

Romans 7:4-6

So, my brothers, you have also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you should be married to another, to him that was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.

2 Corinthians 10:3

For though we walk in the flesh we do not war according to the flesh,

Galatians 2:19-20

For by a law I have died to the law, that I may live to God.

Galatians 4:9-12

but now knowing God, or rather being known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and imperfect rudiments, which you wish again to serve?

Galatians 6:14

But far be it from me to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me and I to the world.

Ephesians 2:15

the enmity, and abolished by his flesh the law of commandments [consisting] of ordinances, that of the two he might create in himself one new man, making peace,

Colossians 3:3

For you have died, and your life is hid with Christ in God;

Hebrews 13:9

Be not carried about with various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the mind should be established with grace, not with aliments, in which those walking are not profited.

James 4:4

Adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity against God? Whoever therefore wishes to be a friend of the world, is made an enemy of God.

1 Peter 4:1-3

Christ therefore having suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

1 John 5:19

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in wickedness.

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 hid with Christ in God;
Romans 6:2
By no means. How shall we who died to sin any longer live in it?
Romans 7:4
So, my brothers, you have also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you should be married to another, to him that was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.
Galatians 2:19
For by a law I have died to the law, that I may live to God.
Galatians 6:14
But far be it from me to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me and I to the world.
1 Peter 4:1
Christ therefore having suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

From

Colossians 2:8
See that no one leads you off as a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,
Ephesians 2:15
the enmity, and abolished by his flesh the law of commandments [consisting] of ordinances, that of the two he might create in himself one new man, making peace,

Living

John 15:19
If you were of this world, the world would be a friend to its own; but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
John 17:14
I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.
2 Corinthians 10:3
For though we walk in the flesh we do not war according to the flesh,
James 4:4
Adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity against God? Whoever therefore wishes to be a friend of the world, is made an enemy of God.
1 John 5:19
We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in wickedness.

Subject

Colossians 2:14
having blotted out what was written by the hand in ordinances which was against us, and has taken it away from between [us], having nailed it to the cross;
Galatians 4:3
So also we, when we were children, were in servitude under the rudiments of the world;
Hebrews 13:9
Be not carried about with various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the mind should be established with grace, not with aliments, in which those walking are not profited.

General references

Luke 5:38
But new wine must be put into new bottles.