King James Version with Apocrypha
"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,"
— Colossians 2:20, King James Version with Apocrypha
“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”
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
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,
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,
(Touch not; taste not; handle not;
Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.