NASB
"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,"
— Colossians 2:20, NASB
“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,”
things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.
Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind,
and not holding fast to the head, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God.
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,
"Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!"
(which all refer to things destined to perish with use)--in accordance with the commandments and teachings of men?
These are matters which have, to be sure, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against fleshly indulgence.