Catholic Public Domain Version
"So then, if you have died with Christ to the influences of this world, why do you still make decisions as if you were living in the world? "
— Colossians 2:20, Catholic Public Domain Version
“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,”
“If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances, ”
“If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,”
“If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit to them as though you lived in the world?”
“If then you be dead with Christ from the elements of this world, why do you yet decree as though living in the world?”
“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”
“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,”
For these are a shadow of the future, but the body is of Christ.
Let no one seduce you, preferring base things and a religion of Angels, walking according to what he has not seen, being vainly inflated by the sensations of his flesh,
and not holding up the head, with which the whole body, by its underlying joints and ligaments, is joined together and grows with an increase that is of God.
So then, if you have died with Christ to the influences of this world, why do you still make decisions as if you were living in the world?
Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle these things,
which all lead to destruction by their very use, in accord with the precepts and doctrines of men.
Such ideas have at least an intention to attain to wisdom, but through superstition and debasement, not sparing the body, and they are without any honor in satiating the flesh.