Colossians 2:20
“Wherefore if yee bee dead with Christ frō the rudiments of the world: why, as though liuing in the world, are ye subiect to ordinances?”
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Colossians 2:20 Context
18Let no man beguile you of your reward, in a voluntary humilitie, and worshipping of Angels, intruding into those things which hee hath not seene, vainely puft vp by his fleshly minde: 19And not holding the head, from which all the body by ioynts and bands hauing nourishment ministred, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God. 20Wherefore if yee bee dead with Christ frō the rudiments of the world: why, as though liuing in the world, are ye subiect to ordinances? 21(Touch not, taste not, handle not: 22Which all are to perish with the vsing) after the commandements and doctrines of men:
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Other Translations for 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,
- King James Version
If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as,
- New American Standard Version (1995)
If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,
- American Standard Version (1901)
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
- Basic English Bible
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?
- Darby Bible
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,
- Webster's Bible
If you have died with Christ and have escaped from the world's rudimentary notions, why, as though your life still belonged to the world, do you submit to such precepts as
- Weymouth Bible
If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
- World English Bible
For if ye ben deed with Crist fro the elementis of this world, what yit as men lyuynge to the world demen ye?
- Wycliffe Bible
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?
- Youngs Literal Bible
Wesley's Notes for Colossians 2:20
2:20 Therefore - The inference begun, #Col 2:16|; is continued. A new inference follows, #Col 3:1|. If ye are dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world - That is, If ye are dead with Christ, and so freed from them, why receive ye ordinances - Which Christ hath not enjoined, from which he hath made you free.
People's Bible Notes for Colossians 2:20
Col 2:20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ. Ye died with Christ, died to the world, and to its rudiments, or fleshly ordinances. See notes on Col 2:8,12. As though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances. Why, then, as though belonging to the world, should you be subject to obsolete Jewish ordinances?