NET Bible
"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?"
— Colossians 2:20, NET Bible
“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 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,”
these are only the shadow of the things to come, but the reality is Christ!
Let no one who delights in false humility and the worship of angels pass judgment on you. That person goes on at great lengths about what he has supposedly seen, but he is puffed up with empty notions by his fleshly mind.
He has not held fast to the head from whom the whole body, supported and knit together through its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.
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?
“Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”
These are all destined to perish with use, founded as they are on human commands and teachings.
Even though they have the appearance of wisdom with their self-imposed worship and humility achieved by an unsparing treatment of the body– a wisdom with no true value– they in reality result in fleshly indulgence.