Colossians 2:20

Since, with Christ, you became dead to the puerile teaching of this world, why do you submit, as if you still belonged to the world,

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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

19They fail to maintain union with the head, to whom it is due that the whole body, nourished and knit together by the contact and connexion of every part, grows with a divine growth.

21to such ordinances as ‘Do not handle, or taste, or touch’?

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Cross References

John 15:19If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world – that is why the world hates you.

Romans 6:2Heaven forbid! We became dead to sin, so how can we go on living in it?

2 Corinthians 10:3For, though we live an earthly life, we do not wage an earthly war.

Galatians 4:3It was the same way with us. When we were under age, as it were, we were slaves to the puerile teaching of this world;

Galatians 6:14But, for my part, may I never boast of anything except the cross of Jesus Christ, our Master, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Colossians 2:8Take care that there is not someone who will carry you away by his ‘philosophy’ – a hollow sham! – following, as it does, mere human traditions, and dealing with puerile questions of this world, and not with 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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