Colossians 2:20
If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
21"Handle not, nor taste, nor touch,"
Cross References
John 15:19If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this the world hates you.
Romans 6:2Far be it! How shall we who died to sin, live any longer therein?
2 Corinthians 10:3For though walking in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh;
Galatians 4:3So also we, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elements[4:3] of the world.
Galatians 6:14But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.
Colossians 2:8Beware lest there shall be any one that despoils you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after 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 →