Colossians 2:20
If, then, you died with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are you subject to ordinances—
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21you may not touch, nor taste, nor handle—
Cross References
John 15:19if you were of the world, the world would have been cherishing its own, but because you are not of the world, but I chose [you] out of the world—because of this the world hates you.
Romans 6:2Let it not be! We who died to sin—how will we still live in it?
2 Corinthians 10:3for walking in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh,
Galatians 4:3so we also, when we were children, were in servitude under the elements of the world,
Galatians 6:14And for me, let it not be—to glory, except in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world;
Colossians 2:8See that no one will be carrying you away as spoil through 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 →