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 ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Romans 6:2
God forbid. We who are dead to sin, how shall we still live therein?
Romans 7:4
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye might be for another, who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit for God.
Galatians 2:19
For I through the law am dead to the law, that I should live unto God.
Galatians 6:14
But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world,
1 Peter 4:1
CHRIST then having suffered for us in the flesh, be ye also in mind armed for the same conflict: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sinning;

From

Colossians 2:8
Beware that no man make a prey of you by means of philosophy and vain delusion, after the tradition of men, after the principles of the world, and not after Christ:
Ephesians 2:15
destroying the enmity in his flesh, even the law of precepts, in ordinances, that he might from the two create in himself one new man, making peace,

Living

John 15:19
If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have elected you out of the world, for this very cause the world hateth you.
John 17:14
I have given them thy word and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
2 Corinthians 10:3
For though we walk in the flesh, we war not after the flesh:
James 4:4
Ye adulterers and adultresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity against God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is set down an enemy to God.
1 John 5:19
We know that we are of God, and the whole world is under the power of that wicked one.

Subject

Colossians 2:14
and hath blotted out the handwriting in ordinances that was against us, which was the obstacle to us, and took it from the midst, nailing it to the cross;
Galatians 4:3
So we also, when we were infants, were in bondage under the first elementary principles of the world:
Hebrews 13:9
Be not tossed about by various and strange doctrines: for it is good to have the heart firmly established by grace, not by meats, in which observances they who have walked have found no manner of advantage.

General references

Luke 5:38
But new wine should be put into new bottles; then both are preserved.