Colossians 2:20
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 other versions
If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,
ASV
If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders
BBE
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?
DBY
If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
WEB
If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?
YLT
Wherefore if all of you be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are all of you subject to ordinances,
ENG
Wherefore, if ye are dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
WBT
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:
BSB
In context
18Let 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,
19And 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.
20Wherefore 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;
22Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
Cross-references
People in this verse
- Jesus