Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
If you have died with the Messiah to the basic principles of the world, why are you submitting to its decrees as though you still lived in the world?
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
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,
Holman Bible
If you died with the Messiah
A Conservative Version
If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why do ye submit to rules, as though living in the world?
American Standard Version
If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,
Amplified
If you have died with Christ to the
An Understandable Version
Since you died with Christ to the basic principles of the world, [then] why, as though you [still] lived in [harmony with] the world, do you submit yourselves to [its] rules, [such as]:
Anderson New Testament
If, then, you have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you submit to ordinances?
Bible in Basic English
If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders
Common New Testament
If with Christ you died to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you still belonged to it, do you submit to regulations such as,
Daniel Mace New Testament
If then you are dead with Christ, in respect of those shadows of the Jewish state; why do ye, as if you were still in that state, submit to those ordinances?
Darby Translation
If ye have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why as if alive in the world do ye subject yourselves to ordinances?
Godbey New Testament
If along with Christ you are dead from the elements of the world, why are you dogmatized as living in the world,
Goodspeed New Testament
If you have died with Christ to material ways of looking at things, why do you act as though you still belonged to the world, and submit to rules like
John Wesley New Testament
Therefore if ye are dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, receive ye ordinances,
Julia Smith Translation
If therefore ye died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as living in the world, do ye dogmatize,
King James 2000
Therefore if you be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are you subject to ordinances,
Lexham Expanded Bible
If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit [to them] as [if] living in the world?
Modern King James verseion
If then you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, are you subject to its ordinances:
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wherefore, if ye be dead with Christ from ordinances of the world: Why as though ye yet lived in the world, are ye led with traditions of them that say
Moffatt New Testament
As you died with Christ to the Elemental spirits of the world, why live as if you still belonged to the world? Why submit to rules and regulations like
Montgomery New Testament
If you died with Christ to the world's rudimentary notions, why, as if you still lived in the world, do you submit yourselves to dogmatisms found on teachings and doctrines of men??21 such as "Do not handle this," "You must not taste that," "Do not touch this"??22 all things which are intended to perish in the using?
NET Bible
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?
New Heart English Bible
If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
Noyes New Testament
If ye died with Christ to the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances, such as,
Sawyer New Testament
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?
The Emphasized Bible
If ye have died, together with Christ, from the first principles of the world, why, as though alive in the world, are ye submitting to decrees, -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
If then ye have been dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye dogmatically taught,
Twentieth Century New Testament
Since, with Christ, you became dead to the puerile teaching of this world, why do you submit, as though your life were still that of the world,
Webster
Wherefore, if ye are dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
Weymouth New Testament
If you have died with Christ and have escaped from the world's rudimentary notions, why, as though your life still belonged to the world, do you submit to such precepts as
Williams New Testament
If once through fellowship with Christ you died and were separated from the world's crude notions, why do you live as though you belonged to the world? Why submit to rules such as,
World English Bible
If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
Worrell New Testament
If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as if living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to decrees,
Worsley New Testament
If therefore ye be dead with Christ from the elements of the world; why, as if living in the world, are ye subject to ceremonial ordinances,
Youngs Literal Translation
If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?
Themes
Asceticism » Extreme application of » Rebuked by paul
Ceremonialism » False religion, characteristics of
Christ » Dying with surrendered life » Characteristics of
death » Figurative of regeneration
natural Death » Illustrates the change produced in conversion
Defilement » Ceremonial, abolished under the gospel
Dying with Christ » Fellowship with Christ's death
Christian Liberty » Is freedom from » Jewish ordinances
Ordinance » Insufficiency of, for salvation
Religion » Formalism » Warnings against
Religion » Characteristics of » Ceremonialism
Sin » Conviction of, results of » Dead to
The Surrendered life » Of Christ to his mission for further treatment of this subject » Dead to sin
Topics
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Colossians 2:20
Images Colossians 2:20
Prayers for Colossians 2:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Beware Of Requirements Invented By Humans
19 He does not hold on to the head, from whom the whole body, which is nourished and held together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God enables it. 20 If you have died with the Messiah to the basic principles of the world, why are you submitting to its decrees as though you still lived in the world? 21 "Don't handle this! Don't taste or touch that!"
Phrases
Cross References
Colossians 2:8
See to it that no one enslaves you through philosophy and empty deceit according to human tradition, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to the Messiah,
Colossians 2:14
having erased the charges that were brought against us, along with their obligations that were hostile to us. He took those charges away when he nailed them to the cross.
Colossians 2:16
Therefore, let no one judge you in matters of food and drink or with respect to a festival, a New Moon, or Sabbath days.
Galatians 4:3
It was the same way with us. While we were children, we were slaves to the basic principles of the world.
John 15:19
If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as one of its own. But because you do not belong to the world and I have chosen you out of it, 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 don't belong to the world.
Romans 6:2-11
Of course not! How can we who died as far as sin is concerned go on living in it?
Romans 7:4-6
In the same way, my brothers, through the Messiah's body you also died as far as the Law is concerned, so that you may belong to another person, the one who was raised from the dead, and may bear fruit for God.
2 Corinthians 10:3
Of course, we are living in the world, but we do not wage war in a world-like way.
Galatians 2:19-20
For through the Law I died to the Law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with the Messiah.
Galatians 4:9-12
But now that you know God, or rather have been known by God, how can you turn back again to those powerless and bankrupt basic principles? Why do you want to become their slaves all over again?
Galatians 6:14
But may I never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world!
Ephesians 2:15
He rendered the Law inoperative, along with its commandments and regulations, thus creating in himself one new humanity from the two, thereby making peace,
Colossians 3:3
For you have died, and your life has been safely guarded by the Messiah in God.
Hebrews 13:9
Stop being carried away by all kinds of unusual teachings, for it is good that the heart be strengthened by grace, not by food laws that have never helped those who follow them.
James 4:4
You adulterers! Don't you know that friendship with the world means hostility with God? So whoever wants to be a friend of this world is an enemy of God.
1 Peter 4:1-3
Therefore, since the Messiah suffered in a mortal body, you, too, must arm yourselves with the same determination, because the person who has suffered in a mortal body has stopped sinning,
1 John 5:19
We know that we are from God and that the whole world lies under the control of the evil one.