Colossians 2:20 Themes and Topics

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 "You must not handle," "You must not taste," "You must not touch"??22 referring to things that are all meant to be used up and destroyed? This is to follow mere human rules and regulations. Such practices pass for wisdom, with their self-imposed devotions, their self-humiliation, and their ascetic discipline, but they carry with them no real distinction, they are really only a catering to the flesh.

The Spirit distinctly says that in later times some will turn away from the faith, and devote their attention to deceitful spirits and the things that demons teach through the pretensions of liars??en with seared consciences who forbid people to marry and insist on abstinence from certain kinds of food that God created for men who believe and understand the truth to enjoy and give thanks for. read more.
For everything God has created is good, and nothing need be refused, provided it is accepted with thanksgiving,

Physical training is of some service, but religion is of service in every way, for it carries with it the promise of life here and hereafter. Verse Concepts

but now that you know God, or rather have come to be known by him, how can you turn back to the old, crude notions, so poor and weak, and wish to become slaves to them again? Verse Concepts

and they will not eat anything from the market without first purifying it by sprinkling it, and they have a number of other observances which have come down to them, in the way of washing cups, pitchers, and basins. Verse Concepts

Then why do you now try to test God, by putting on the necks of these disciples a yoke that neither our forefathers nor we have been able to bear? Verse Concepts

This is the freedom with which Christ has freed us. So stand firm in it, and do not get under a yoke of slavery again. Verse Concepts

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 Verse Concepts

since they have to do only with food and drink and various washings??aterial regulations in force only until the time for the new order. Verse Concepts

for we know that our old self was crucified with him, to do away with our sinful body, so that we might not be enslaved to sin any longer, Verse Concepts

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

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 Verse Concepts

As the Scripture says, "For your sake we are being put to death all day long, We are treated like sheep to be slaughtered." Verse Concepts

For every day I live I am being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be visible in my mortal nature. Verse Concepts

How true those words are! "If we have died with him, we will live with him! Verse Concepts

Those who belong to Jesus the Christ have crucified the physical nature with its propensities and cravings. Verse Concepts

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

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 Verse Concepts

He carried the burden of our sins in his own body on the cross, in order that we might die to sin and live for uprightness. By his wounds you have been healed. Verse Concepts

How true those words are! "If we have died with him, we will live with him! Verse Concepts

So you also must think of yourselves as dead to sin but alive to God, through union with Christ Jesus. Verse Concepts

Certainly not! When we have died to sin, how can we live in it any longer? Verse Concepts

for when a man is dead he is free from the claims of sin. Verse Concepts

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

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 Verse Concepts

But if Christ is in your hearts, though your bodies are dead in consequence of sin, your spirits have life in consequence of uprightness. If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead has taken possession of you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give your mortal bodies life through his Spirit that has taken possession of you.

Certainly not! When we have died to sin, how can we live in it any longer? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into union with Christ Jesus have been baptized into his death? Through baptism we have been buried with him in death, so that just as he was raised from the dead through the Father's glory, we too may live a new life. read more.
For if we have grown into union with him by undergoing a death like his, of course we shall do so by being raised to life like him, for we know that our old self was crucified with him, to do away with our sinful body, so that we might not be enslaved to sin any longer, for when a man is dead he is free from the claims of sin. If we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him, for we know that Christ, once raised from the dead, will never die again; death has no more hold on him. For when he died, he became once for all dead to sin; the life he now lives is a life in relation to God. So you also must think of yourselves as dead to sin but alive to God, through union with Christ Jesus.

Do you not know, brothers??or I am speaking to men who know what law is??hat law governs a man only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if he dies, the marriage law no longer applies to her. So if she marries another man while her husband is alive, she is called an adulteress, but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and can marry someone else without being an adulteress. read more.
So you, in turn, my brothers, in the body of Christ have become dead as far as the Law is concerned, so that you may belong to another husband, who was raised from the dead in order that we might bear fruit for God. For when we were living mere physical lives the sinful passions, awakened by the Law, operated through the organs of our bodies to make us bear fruit for death. But now the Law no longer applies to us; we have died to what once controlled us, so that we can now serve in the new Spirit, not under the old letter. Then what shall we conclude? That the Law is sin? Certainly not! Yet, if it had not been for the Law, I should never have learned what sin was; I should not have known what it was to covet if the Law had not said, "You must not covet." That command gave sin an opening, and it led me to all sorts of covetous ways, for sin is lifeless without law. I was once alive and without law, but when the command came, sin awoke and then I died; and the command that should have meant life in my case proved to mean death.

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 Verse Concepts

Certainly not! When we have died to sin, how can we live in it any longer? Verse Concepts

The voice came to him again a second time, "Do not call what God has cleansed unclean." Verse Concepts

I know and as a follower of the Lord Jesus I am convinced that nothing is unclean in itself; a thing is unclean only to the man who regards it as unclean. Verse Concepts

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 "You must not handle," "You must not taste," "You must not touch"??22 referring to things that are all meant to be used up and destroyed? This is to follow mere human rules and regulations.

for we know that our old self was crucified with him, to do away with our sinful body, so that we might not be enslaved to sin any longer, Verse Concepts

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

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 Verse Concepts

As the Scripture says, "For your sake we are being put to death all day long, We are treated like sheep to be slaughtered." Verse Concepts

For every day I live I am being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be visible in my mortal nature. Verse Concepts

How true those words are! "If we have died with him, we will live with him! Verse Concepts

keeping up the forms of religion, but resisting its influence. Avoid such people. Verse Concepts

"Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you pay tithes on mint, dill, and cummin, and you have let the weightier matters of the Law go??ustice, mercy, and integrity. But you should have observed these, without overlooking the others. Verse Concepts

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 Verse Concepts

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" 'This people honor me with their lips, Yet their hearts are far away from me. Verse Concepts

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You are observing days, months, seasons, and years! I begin to be afraid that perhaps the labor I spent on you was wasted.

So when we were minors, we were slaves to material ways of looking at things, Verse Concepts

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 Verse Concepts

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 "You must not handle," "You must not taste," "You must not touch"??22 referring to things that are all meant to be used up and destroyed? This is to follow mere human rules and regulations. Such practices pass for wisdom, with their self-imposed devotions, their self-humiliation, and their ascetic discipline, but they carry with them no real distinction, they are really only a catering to the flesh.

For in union with Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor the want of it counts for anything, but only faith acting through love. Verse Concepts

For neither circumcision nor the want of it is of any importance, but only a new creation. Verse Concepts

and through his human nature put an end to the feud between us, and abolished the Law with its rules and regulations, in order to make peace and create out of the two parties one new man by uniting them with himself, Verse Concepts

canceled the bond which stood against us, with its requirements, and put it out of our way when he nailed it to the cross. Verse Concepts

Even the first agreement provided regulations for worship, and a sanctuary that was fully equipped. Verse Concepts

In all this the holy Spirit was seeking to show that there was no free access to the sanctuary while the outer tent was still standing. And all this looked toward the present time and was symbolic of the fact that the mere offering of material gifts and sacrifices cannot inwardly qualify the worshiper to approach God, since they have to do only with food and drink and various washings??aterial regulations in force only until the time for the new order.