Colossians 2:20
If then you be dead with Christ from the elements of this world, why do you yet decree as though living in the world?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
21Touch not, taste not, handle not:
Cross References
John 15:19If you had been 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 hateth you.
Romans 6:2God forbid. For we that are dead to sin, how shall we live any longer therein?
2 Corinthians 10:3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.
Galatians 4:3So we also, when we were children, were serving under the elements of the world.
Galatians 6:14But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ; by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.
Colossians 2:8Beware lest any man cheat you by philosophy, and vain deceit; according to the tradition of men, according to the elements 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 →