Colossians 2:20
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:
In context
18 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up without basis by his unspiritual mind.
19 He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.
20 If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:
21 “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”?
22 These will all perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings.
Colossians 2:20 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:
- KJV King James 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,
- WEB World English Bible
- If you died with Christ from the elemental spirits of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
- ASV American Standard Version
- If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?
- DBY Darby Translation
- If ye have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why as [if] alive in [the] world do ye subject yourselves to ordinances?
- WBS Webster Bible
- Wherefore, if ye are dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,