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?
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

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.