Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Forasmuch then as Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;

From

Be careful that you don't let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;

Living

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

For though we walk in the flesh, we don't wage war according to the flesh;

You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

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

Subject

wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

Don't be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

General references

"'By these you will become unclean: whoever touches the carcass of them shall be unclean until the evening.

But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.