Colossians 2:20 Themes and Topics

For if ye are dead with the Christ to the elements of the world, why, as though living unto the world, do ye decree rites, touch not; taste not; handle not? Which all perish with the using, because they are the commandments and doctrines of men, read more.
which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will worship and humility and neglecting of the body, but they have absolutely no value against the appetites of the flesh.

Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, listening to spirits of error and doctrines of demons; that in hypocrisy shall speak lies; having their conscience seared as with a hot iron; they shall forbid to marry and shall command men to abstain from foods, which God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who are faithful and have known the truth. read more.
For everything that God created is good, and nothing is to be refused, if it is received with thanksgiving,

For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come. Verse Concepts

But now, having known God, or rather being known of God, how do ye turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, in which ye desire again to be in slavery? Verse Concepts

And when they come from the market, unless they wash, they eat not. And there are many other things which they took upon themselves to hold such as the washing of cups and pots, brasen vessels and of tables.) Verse Concepts

Now therefore why tempt ye God, putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? Verse Concepts

Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us free and do not be entangled again with the yoke of slavery. Verse Concepts

For if ye are dead with the Christ to the elements of the world, why, as though living unto the world, do ye decree rites, Verse Concepts

but in foods and drinks and different washings and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of correction. Verse Concepts

knowing this: that our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed that we should not serve sin any longer. Verse Concepts

I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Verse Concepts

For if ye are dead with the Christ to the elements of the world, why, as though living unto the world, do ye decree rites, Verse Concepts

(As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.) Verse Concepts

For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. Verse Concepts

This is a faithful word: That if we are dead with him, we shall also live with him; Verse Concepts

For those that are of the Christ have crucified the flesh with its affections and lusts. Verse Concepts

I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Verse Concepts

For if ye are dead with the Christ to the elements of the world, why, as though living unto the world, do ye decree rites, Verse Concepts

he himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness; by whose wound ye were healed. Verse Concepts

This is a faithful word: That if we are dead with him, we shall also live with him; Verse Concepts

Likewise also reckon yourselves to be truly dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ, Jesus, our Lord. Verse Concepts

No, in no wise. How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein? Verse Concepts

For he that is dead is justified from sin. Verse Concepts

For ye are dead and your life is hid with the Christ in God. Verse Concepts

For if ye are dead with the Christ to the elements of the world, why, as though living unto the world, do ye decree rites, Verse Concepts

But if Christ is in you, the body is truly dead because of sin, but the Spirit is alive because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he that raised up the Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells in you.

No, in no wise. How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein? Know ye not that all of us that are baptized into Jesus the Christ are baptized into his death? For we are buried with him by baptism into death, that just as the Christ was raised up from the dead to the glory of the Father, likewise we also walk in newness of life. read more.
For if we have been planted together in him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection, knowing this: that our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed that we should not serve sin any longer. For he that is dead is justified from sin. Now if we die with the Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him, knowing that the Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more; death has no more dominion over him. For he that is dead died unto sin once, and he that lives, lives unto God. Likewise also reckon yourselves to be truly dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ, Jesus, our Lord.

Know ye not, brethren (for I speak to those that know the law), that the law has dominion over a man only as long as he lives? For the woman who is subject to a husband is obligated to the law so long as the husband lives; but if the husband dies, she is free from the law of the husband. So then if, while her husband lives, she belongs to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law so that she is no adulteress if she belongs to another man. read more.
Likewise ye also, my brethren, are become dead to the law in the body of the Christ that ye should belong to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. For while we were in the flesh, the affections of the sins which were by the law worked in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are free from the law of death in which we were held, that we might serve in newness of Spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? No, in no wise. But, I did not know sin except by the law; for neither would I have known lust if the law did not say, Thou shalt not covet. Then sin, when there was occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of lust. For without the law sin was as if it were dormant. So that without the law I lived for some time; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And I found that the same commandment, which was unto life, was mortal unto me.

For if ye are dead with the Christ to the elements of the world, why, as though living unto the world, do ye decree rites, Verse Concepts

No, in no wise. How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein? Verse Concepts

And the voice spoke unto him again the second time, That which God has cleansed, do not call common. Verse Concepts

I know and trust in the Lord Jesus that for his sake there is nothing unclean, but to him that esteems any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean. Verse Concepts

For if ye are dead with the Christ to the elements of the world, why, as though living unto the world, do ye decree rites, touch not; taste not; handle not? Which all perish with the using, because they are the commandments and doctrines of men,

knowing this: that our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed that we should not serve sin any longer. Verse Concepts

I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Verse Concepts

For if ye are dead with the Christ to the elements of the world, why, as though living unto the world, do ye decree rites, Verse Concepts

(As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.) Verse Concepts

For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. Verse Concepts

This is a faithful word: That if we are dead with him, we shall also live with him; Verse Concepts

having the appearance of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. Verse Concepts

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin and have omitted that which is more important of the law: judgment, mercy, and faith; these were expedient for ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Verse Concepts

For if ye are dead with the Christ to the elements of the world, why, as though living unto the world, do ye decree rites, Verse Concepts

Therefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people sacrifice unto me and honour me with their lips, but have removed their heart far from me, and their worship with which they honour me was taught by the commandment of men: Verse Concepts

That they seek me daily and want to know my ways, as people that do righteousness and have not forsaken the rights of their God: they ask me of the rights of righteousness and desire to approach God. Verse Concepts

This people draws nigh unto me with their mouth and honours me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. Verse Concepts

Bring no more vain oblations; the incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot stand them; iniquity and the solemn meeting. Verse Concepts

Ye observe days and months and times and years. I am afraid for you, lest I have bestowed labour upon you in vain.

Even so we, when we were children, were in slavery under the elements of the world, Verse Concepts

For if ye are dead with the Christ to the elements of the world, why, as though living unto the world, do ye decree rites, Verse Concepts

For if ye are dead with the Christ to the elements of the world, why, as though living unto the world, do ye decree rites, touch not; taste not; handle not? Which all perish with the using, because they are the commandments and doctrines of men, read more.
which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will worship and humility and neglecting of the body, but they have absolutely no value against the appetites of the flesh.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything nor uncircumcision, but faith which works by charity. Verse Concepts

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails any thing nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. Verse Concepts

abolishing in his flesh the enmity, which was the law of commandments in the order of rites, to edify in himself the two in one new man, making peace, Verse Concepts

blotting out the bill of the decrees that was against us, which was contrary to us and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross , Verse Concepts

Nevertheless the first had its justifications of worship and its worldly sanctuary. Verse Concepts

Hear the word of the LORD, ye princes of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? shall the LORD say. I am full of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; and I do not delight in the blood of bullocks or of lambs or of he goats. When ye come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to tread my courts? read more.
Bring no more vain oblations; the incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot stand them; iniquity and the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; likewise, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood. Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil; learn to do good; seek judgment; restore unto the oppressed; hear the fatherless in right judgment; protect the widow.

The Holy Spirit signifying in this, that the way into the sanctuary was not yet made manifest, as long as the first tabernacle was yet standing: Which was a figure of that time present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience, but in foods and drinks and different washings and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of correction.