Colossians 2:20

If, then, you have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you submit to ordinances?

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,

In Context

19and not holding the head, from which the whole body gathering vigor, and firmly united by joints and bands, increases with the increase of God.

21Touch not, taste not, handle not,

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Cross References

John 15:19If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Romans 6:2It can not be. How shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer in it?

2 Corinthians 10:3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh,

Galatians 4:3So, also, we, when we were minors, were in bondage under the rudiments of the world.

Galatians 6:14But may I never boast save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Colossians 2:8See that no one make you the victims of imposture by means of philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ:

Matthew Henry on Colossians 2:17-23

The Glory of the Christian Economy. ( a. d. 62.) 16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. 18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment… Read the whole commentary →

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