Colossians 2:20

If along with Christ you are dead from the elements of the world, why are you dogmatized as living in the world,

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

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

19and not holding the Head, from which the entire body, by joints and ligaments being supplied and knitted together, increases the increase of God.

21Touch not, taste not, handle not,

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Cross References

John 15:19If you were of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on this account the world hates you.

Romans 6:2It could not be so. How shall we, who are dead unto sin, live any longer in it?

2 Corinthians 10:3For walking in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh;

Galatians 4:3So also we, when we were infants, were enslaved under the elements of the world:

Galatians 6:14But it would be impossible for me to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world:

Colossians 2:8See that no one shall be deceiving you through philosophy and empty delusion, according to the tradition of men, according to 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 →

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