Colossians 2:20 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769 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, More versionsAmplified Bible - Classic Edition If then you have died with Christ to material ways of looking at things and have escaped from the world's crude and elemental notions and teachings of externalism, why do you live as if you still belong to the world? [Why do you submit to rules and regulations?–such as] American Standard Version (1901) If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances, Common English Bible If you died with Christ to the way the world thinks and acts, why do you submit to rules and regulations as though you were living in the world? 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? |