Colossians 2:20 Themes and Topics

If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations-- "Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch" (referring to things that all perish as they are used)--according to human precepts and teachings? read more.
These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that 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 while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, 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 can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? Verse Concepts

and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.) Verse Concepts

Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? Verse Concepts

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Verse Concepts

If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations-- Verse Concepts

but deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation. Verse Concepts

We know that our old selfwas crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved 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 elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations-- 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 over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. Verse Concepts

The saying is trustworthy, for: If we have died with him, we will also live with him; Verse Concepts

And 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 elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations-- Verse Concepts

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

The saying is trustworthy, for: If we have died with him, we will also live with him; Verse Concepts

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

By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Verse Concepts

For one who has died has been set free 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 elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations-- Verse Concepts

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

By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order 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 be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old selfwas crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Or do you not know, brothers--for I am speaking to those who know the law--that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, 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 if she marries another man she is not an adulteress. read more.
Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. For 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 we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code. What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, "You shall not covet." But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead. I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me.

If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations-- Verse Concepts

By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Verse Concepts

And the voice came to him again a second time, "What God has made clean, do not call common." Verse Concepts

I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean. Verse Concepts

If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations-- "Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch" (referring to things that all perish as they are used)--according to human precepts and teachings?

We know that our old selfwas crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved 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 elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations-- 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 over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. Verse Concepts

The saying is trustworthy, for: If we have died with him, we will also live with him; Verse Concepts

having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. Verse Concepts

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If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations-- Verse Concepts

And the Lord said: "Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men, Verse Concepts

Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God. Verse Concepts

"'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; Verse Concepts

Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and Sabbath and the calling of convocations-- I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly. Verse Concepts

You observe days and months and seasons and years! I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain.

In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world. Verse Concepts

If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations-- Verse Concepts

If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations-- "Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch" (referring to things that all perish as they are used)--according to human precepts and teachings? read more.
These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love. Verse Concepts

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

by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, Verse Concepts

by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. Verse Concepts

Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness. Verse Concepts

Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom! Give ear to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah! "What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the LORD; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats. "When you come to appear before me, who has required of you this trampling of my courts? read more.
Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and Sabbath and the calling of convocations-- I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them. When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood. Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.

By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet opened as long as the first section is still standing (which is symbolic for the present age). According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper, but deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.