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.

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

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.

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,

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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,

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

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.

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.

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

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.

We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in [the power of] the evil one.

Subject

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.

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

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

And by these you shall become unclean--anyone who touches their dead body shall become unclean until the evening,

But new wine must be put into new wineskins.