Colossians 2:20
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 ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
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,
21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:
- KJV
- 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,
- WEB
- If you died with Christ from the elemental spirits of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
- ASV
- If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,
- DARBY
- If ye have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why as [if] alive in [the] world do ye subject yourselves to ordinances?
- BLB
- If you⁺ died with Christ, away from the elements of the world, why, as if living in the world, are you⁺ subject to decrees:
- ÅB
- Er dere avdød med Kristus fra verdens barnelærdom, hvorfor gir de dere da, som om dere levde i verden, slike bud:
- OTB
- Hvis dere har dødd med Kristus fra verdens ting, hvorfor oppfører dere dere som om dere fortsatt lever i verden ved å underkaste dere dens forskrifter?
- B1930
- Er I avdød med Kristus fra verdens barnelærdom, hvorfor gir de eder da, som om I levde i verden, slike bud:
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Colossians 2:8
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Read in contextColossians 2:14
Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
Read in contextColossians 2:16
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
Read in contextGalatians 4:3
Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
Read in contextRomans 7:4–6
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Read in context1 John 5:19
And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
Read in contextHebrews 13:9
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
Read in context2 Corinthians 10:3
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
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