Colossians 2:20
For if you are dead with the Meshiha from the principles of the world, why as if you lived in the world are you judged? as that
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
In Context
21you are not to touch, nor to taste, nor to handle?
Cross References
John 15:19And if of the world you were, the world its own would have loved; but you are not of the world, for I have chosen you from the world; on which account the world hateth you.
Romans 6:2Not so. For how shall they who are dead to sin live yet in it?
2 Corinthians 10:3For if we walk in the flesh, yet we war not according to the flesh.
Galatians 4:3So we also, while children, under the principles of the world were subjected.
Galatians 6:14But to me let it not be that I shall glory except in the cross of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, by which the world is crucified unto me, and I am crucified to the world.
Colossians 2:8Beware lest any man strip you by philosophy and by vain deceit, according to the teaching of men, and according to the principles of the world, and not according to the Meshiha,
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 →