Colossians 2:20
Therefore, if you are dead with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as though still living in the world, do you submit to such ordinances as,
Revised King James New Testament
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In Context
21Do not touch; do not taste; do not handle?
Cross References
John 15:19If you were of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, because I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Romans 6:2By no means. How shall we, who are dead to sin, live in it any longer?
2 Corinthians 10:3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh:
Galatians 4:3So we, when we were children, were in bondage to the elementary principles of the world:
Galatians 6:14But God forbid that I should glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.
Colossians 2:8Beware, lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, which depend on the traditions of men and the rudiments of the world, and not on 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 →