Colossians 2:20
If then you have died with Christ to the elements of the world, why, as though you were living in the world, do you submit to regulations such as,
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In Context
21“Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch”?
Cross References
John 15:19If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you.
Romans 6:2Certainly not! How can we who have died to sin still live in it?
2 Corinthians 10:3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.
Galatians 4:3In the same way also, when we were children, we were enslaved to the elements of the world.
Galatians 6:14But as for me, may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Colossians 2:8Be careful that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men and 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 →