Colossians 2:20 Themes and Topics

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, To such ordinances as 'Do not handle, or taste, or touch'? For all the things referred to in them cease to exist when used. You are following mere human directions and instructions. read more.
Such prohibitions appear reasonable where there is a desire for self-imposed service, and so-called 'humility,' and harsh treatment of the body, but are of no real value against the indulgence of our earthly nature.

But the Spirit distinctly says that in later times there will be some who will fall away from the Faith, and devote their attention to misleading spirits, and to the teaching of demons, who will make use of the hypocrisy of lying teachers. These men's consciences are seared, and they discourage marriage and enjoin abstinence from certain kinds of food; though God created these foods to be enjoyed thankfully by those who hold the Faith and have attained a full knowledge of the Truth. read more.
Everything created by God is good, and there in nothing that need be rejected--provided only that it is received thankfully;

for while the training of the body is of service in some respects, religion is of service in all, carrying with it, as it does, a promise of Life both here and hereafter. Verse Concepts

But now that you have found God--or, rather, have been found by him--how is it that you are turning back to that poor and feeble puerile teaching, to which yet once again you are wanting to become slaves? Verse Concepts

When they come from market, they will not eat without first sprinkling themselves; and there are many other customs which they have inherited and hold to, such as the ceremonial washing of cups, and jugs, and copper pans). Verse Concepts

Why, then, do you now provoke God, by putting on the necks of these disciples a yoke which neither our ancestors nor we were able to bear? Verse Concepts

It is for freedom that Christ set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not again be held under the yoke of slavery. Verse Concepts

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, Verse Concepts

the whole system being concerned only with food and drink and various ablutions--external ceremonials imposed until the coming of the New Order. Verse Concepts

We recognize the truth that our old self was crucified with Christ, in order that the body, the stronghold of Sin, might be rendered powerless, so that we should no longer be slaves to Sin. Verse Concepts

I have been crucified with Christ. So it is no longer I that live, but it is Christ who lives in me; and, as for my present earthly life, I am living it by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Verse Concepts

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, Verse Concepts

Scripture says-'For thy sake we are being killed all the day long, We are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.' Verse Concepts

Indeed, we who still live are continually being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the Life also of Jesus may be exhibited in our mortal nature. Verse Concepts

How true this saying is-- 'If we have shared his death, we shall also share his life. Verse Concepts

And those who belong to Jesus, the Christ, have already crucified their earthly nature, with its passions and its cravings. Verse Concepts

I have been crucified with Christ. So it is no longer I that live, but it is Christ who lives in me; and, as for my present earthly life, I am living it by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Verse Concepts

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, Verse Concepts

And he 'himself carried our sins' in his own body to the cross, so that we might die to our sins, and live for righteousness. 'His bruising was your healing.' Verse Concepts

How true this saying is-- 'If we have shared his death, we shall also share his life. Verse Concepts

So let it be with you-regard yourselves as dead to sin, but as living for God, through union with Christ Jesus. Verse Concepts

Heaven forbid! We became dead to sin, and how can we go on living in it? Verse Concepts

For the man who has so died has been pronounced righteous and released from Sin. Verse Concepts

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

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, Verse Concepts

But, if Christ is within you, then, though the body is dead as a consequence of sin, the spirit is Life as a consequence of righteousness. And, if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead lives within you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give Life even to your mortal bodies, through his Spirit living within you.

Heaven forbid! We became dead to sin, and how can we go on living in it? Or can it be that you do not know that all of us, who were baptized into union with Christ Jesus, in our baptism shared his death? Consequently, through sharing his death in our baptism, we were buried with him; that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by a manifestation of the Father's power, so we also may live a new Life. read more.
If we have become united with him by the act symbolic of his death, surely we shall also become united with him by the act symbolic of his resurrection. We recognize the truth that our old self was crucified with Christ, in order that the body, the stronghold of Sin, might be rendered powerless, so that we should no longer be slaves to Sin. For the man who has so died has been pronounced righteous and released from Sin. And our belief is, that, as we have shared Christ's Death, we shall also share his Life. We know, indeed, that Christ, having once risen from the dead, will not die again. Death has power over him no longer. For the death that he died was a death to sin, once and for all. But the Life that he now lives, he lives for God. So let it be with you-regard yourselves as dead to sin, but as living for God, through union with Christ Jesus.

Surely, Brothers, you know (for I am speaking to men who know what Law means) that Law has power over a man only as long as he lives. For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband while he is living; but, if her husband dies, she is set free from the law that bound her to him. If, then, during her husband's lifetime, she unites herself to another man, she will be called an adulteress; but, if her husband dies, the law has no further hold on her, nor, if she unites herself to another man, is she an adulteress. read more.
And so with you, my Brothers; as far as the Law was concerned, you underwent death in the crucified body of the Christ, so that you might be united to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that our lives might bear fruit for God. When we were living merely earthly lives, our sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were active in every part of our bodies, with the result that our lives bore fruit for Death. But now we are set free from the Law, because we are dead to that which once kept us under restraint; and so we serve under new, spiritual conditions, and not under old, written regulations. What are we to say, then? That Law and sin are the same thing? Heaven forbid! On the contrary, I should not have learned what sin is, had not it been for Law. If the Law did not say 'Thou shalt not covet,' I should not know what it is to covet. But sin took advantage of the Commandment to arouse in me every form of covetousness, for where there is no consciousness of Law sin shows no sign of life. There was a time when I myself, unconscious of Law, was alive; but when the Commandment was brought home to me, sin sprang into life, while I died! The very Commandment that should have meant Life I found to result in Death!

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, Verse Concepts

Heaven forbid! We became dead to sin, and how can we go on living in it? Verse Concepts

Again he was aware of a voice which said-- "What God has pronounced 'clean', do not regard as 'defiled'." Verse Concepts

Through my union with the Lord Jesus, I know and am persuaded that nothing is 'defiling in itself.' A thing is 'defiling' only to him who holds it to be so. Verse Concepts

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, To such ordinances as 'Do not handle, or taste, or touch'? For all the things referred to in them cease to exist when used. You are following mere human directions and instructions.

We recognize the truth that our old self was crucified with Christ, in order that the body, the stronghold of Sin, might be rendered powerless, so that we should no longer be slaves to Sin. Verse Concepts

I have been crucified with Christ. So it is no longer I that live, but it is Christ who lives in me; and, as for my present earthly life, I am living it by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Verse Concepts

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, Verse Concepts

Scripture says-'For thy sake we are being killed all the day long, We are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.' Verse Concepts

Indeed, we who still live are continually being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the Life also of Jesus may be exhibited in our mortal nature. Verse Concepts

How true this saying is-- 'If we have shared his death, we shall also share his life. Verse Concepts

and while they retain the outward form of religion, they will not allow it to influence them. Turn your back on such men as these. Verse Concepts

Alas for you, Teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You pay tithes on mint, fennel, and caraway seed, and have neglected the weightier matters of the Law--justice, mercy, and good faith. These last you ought to have put into practice, without neglecting the first. Verse Concepts

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, Verse Concepts

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'This is a people that honor me with their lips, While their hearts are far removed from me; Verse Concepts

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You are scrupulous in keeping Days and Months and Seasons and Years! You make me fear that the labor which I have spent on you may have been wasted.

And so is it with us; when we were under age, as it were, we were slaves to the puerile teaching of this world; Verse Concepts

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, Verse Concepts

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, To such ordinances as 'Do not handle, or taste, or touch'? For all the things referred to in them cease to exist when used. You are following mere human directions and instructions. read more.
Such prohibitions appear reasonable where there is a desire for self-imposed service, and so-called 'humility,' and harsh treatment of the body, but are of no real value against the indulgence of our earthly nature.

If a man is in union with Christ Jesus, neither is circumcision nor the omission of it anything, but faith, working through love, is everything. Verse Concepts

For neither is circumcision nor the omission of it anything; but a new nature is everything. Verse Concepts

And in his human nature put an end to the cause of enmity between them--the Law with its injunctions and ordinances--in order to create, through union with himself, from Jew and Gentile, one New Man and thus make peace. Verse Concepts

He canceled the bond which stood against us--the bond that consisted of ordinances--and which was directly hostile to us! He has taken it out of our way by nailing it to the cross! Verse Concepts

It is true that even the first Covenant had its regulations for divine worship, and its Sanctuary--though only a material one. Verse Concepts

By this the Holy Spirit is teaching that the way into the Sanctuary was hidden, as long as the outer part of the Tabernacle still remained. For that was only a type, to continue down to the present time; and, in keeping with it, both gifts and sacrifices are offered, though incapable of satisfying the conscience of the worshiper; the whole system being concerned only with food and drink and various ablutions--external ceremonials imposed until the coming of the New Order.