Colossians 2:20
For if ye are dead with the Messiah from the rudiments of the world, why are ye judged as if ye were living in the world?
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
21But, touch thou not, and taste thou not, and handle thou not:
Cross References
John 15:19And if ye were of the world, the world would love what is of it. But ye are not of the world, for I have chosen you out of the world; for this cause, the world hateth you.
Romans 6:2Far be it: for if we are persons that have died to sin, how can we again live in it?
2 Corinthians 10:3For, although we walk in the flesh, our warfare is not after the flesh.
Galatians 4:3So also we, while we were children, were in subordination under the elements of the world.
Galatians 6:14But as for me, let me not glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus the Messiah; by whom the world is crucified to me, and I am crucified to the world.
Colossians 2:8Beware, lest any man make you naked by philosophy, and by vain deception, according to the doctrines of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to the Messiah,
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 →