Colossians 2:20 Themes and Topics

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, "Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!" (referring to things which are all destined perish with use), according to human commandments and teachings? read more.
These indeed have an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but they are of no value against fleshly indulgence.

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith by giving heed to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, through the pretensions of liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron, who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. read more.
For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving;

For bodily training is of some value, but godliness is of value in all things, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come. Verse Concepts

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things? Do you desire to be enslaved all over again? Verse Concepts

When they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash themselves. And there are many other traditions which they observe, the washing of cups and pitchers and copper vessels.) Verse Concepts

Now therefore why do you test God by putting upon the neck of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? Verse Concepts

It was for freedom that Christ has set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. Verse Concepts

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, Verse Concepts

since they relate only to food and drink and various washings regulations for the flesh imposed until the time of reformation. Verse Concepts

We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin. Verse Concepts

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Verse Concepts

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, Verse Concepts

As it is written: "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered." Verse Concepts

For we who live are always being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. Verse Concepts

Here is a trustworthy saying: if we died with him, we will also live with him; Verse Concepts

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Verse Concepts

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Verse Concepts

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, Verse Concepts

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed. Verse Concepts

Here is a trustworthy saying: if we died with him, we will also live with him; Verse Concepts

So you also, consider yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Verse Concepts

Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live any longer in it? Verse Concepts

For he who has died has been freed from sin. Verse Concepts

For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. Verse Concepts

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, Verse Concepts

But if Christ is in you, although your body is dead because of sin, your spirit is alive because of righteousness. If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit who dwells in you.

Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. read more.
For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. For we know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. So you also, consider yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Do you not know, brethrenfor I am speaking to those who know the lawthat the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of her husband. So then, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and though she marries another man, she is not an adulteress. read more.
Likewise, my brethren, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit to God. While we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. But now, by dying to what once held us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code. What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "You shall not covet." But sin, finding opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetous desire. For apart from the law sin lies dead. I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. The very commandment which was to bring life I found to be death to me.

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, Verse Concepts

Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live any longer in it? Verse Concepts

And the voice came to him again a second time, "What God has cleansed, you must not call common." Verse Concepts

I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean. Verse Concepts

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, "Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!" (referring to things which are all destined perish with use), according to human commandments and teachings?

We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin. Verse Concepts

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Verse Concepts

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, Verse Concepts

As it is written: "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered." Verse Concepts

For we who live are always being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. Verse Concepts

Here is a trustworthy saying: if we died with him, we will also live with him; Verse Concepts

holding a form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid such people. Verse Concepts

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the Law, justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. Verse Concepts

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, Verse Concepts

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'These people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. Verse Concepts

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You observe days and months and seasons and years! I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain.

So also, when we were children, we were in slavery under the elemental things of the world. Verse Concepts

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, Verse Concepts

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, "Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!" (referring to things which are all destined perish with use), according to human commandments and teachings? read more.
These indeed have an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but they are of no value against fleshly indulgence.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is of any avail, but faith working through love. Verse Concepts

For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but what counts is a new creation. Verse Concepts

by abolishing in his flesh the hostility, which is the Law of commandments and ordinances, so that he might create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace, Verse Concepts

having canceled the certificate of debt, which stood against us with its decrees. He took what was hostile away from us, nailing it to the cross. Verse Concepts

Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary. Verse Concepts

The Holy Spirit was showing by this that the way into the holy place had not yet been disclosed as long as the outer tabernacle was still standing. This is symbolic for the present time. According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper, since they relate only to food and drink and various washings regulations for the flesh imposed until the time of reformation.