Colossians 2:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Gal 4:3 : 3 So we, when we were young, were kept under the first rules of the world;
  • Col 2:8 : 8 Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:
  • Col 2:14 : 14 Having put an end to the handwriting of the law which was against us, taking it out of the way by nailing it to his cross;
  • Col 2:16 : 16 For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths:
  • Gal 4:9-9 : 9 But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again? 10 You keep days, and months, and fixed times, and years. 11 I am in fear of you, that I may have been working for you to no purpose. 12 My desire for you, brothers, is that you may be as I am, because I am as you are. You have done me no wrong;
  • Gal 6:14 : 14 But far be it from me to have glory in anything, but only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which this world has come to an end on the cross for me, and I for it.
  • Eph 2:15 : 15 Having in his flesh put an end to that which made the division between us, even the law with its rules and orders, so that he might make in himself, of the two, one new man, so making peace;
  • John 15:19 : 19 If you were of the world, you would be loved by the world: but because you are not of the world, but I have taken you out of the world, you are hated by the world.
  • John 17:14-16 : 14 I have given your word to them; and they are hated by the world, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15 My prayer is not that you will take them out of the world, but that you will keep them from the Evil One. 16 They are not of the world any more than I am of the world.
  • Rom 7:4-6 : 4 In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God. 5 For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death. 6 But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.
  • 2 Cor 10:3 : 3 For though we may be living in the flesh, we are not fighting after the way of the flesh
  • Gal 2:19-20 : 19 For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God. 20 I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.
  • Col 3:3 : 3 For your life on earth is done, and you have a secret life with Christ in God.
  • Heb 13:9 : 9 Do not be turned away by different strange teachings, because it is good for your hearts to be made strong by grace, and not by meats, which were of no profit to those who took so much trouble over them.
  • Jas 4:4 : 4 O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.
  • 1 Pet 4:1-3 : 1 So that as Jesus was put to death in the flesh, do you yourselves be of the same mind; for the death of the flesh puts an end to sin; 2 So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God. 3 Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;
  • 1 John 5:19 : 19 We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.
  • Rom 6:2-9 : 2 In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer? 3 Or are you without the knowledge that all we who had baptism into Christ Jesus, had baptism into his death? 4 We have been placed with him among the dead through baptism into death: so that as Christ came again from the dead by the glory of the Father, we, in the same way, might be living in new life. 5 For, if we have been made like him in his death, we will, in the same way, be like him in his coming to life again; 6 Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin. 7 Because he who is dead is free from sin. 8 But if we are dead with Christ, we have faith that we will be living with him; 9 Having knowledge that because Christ has come back from the dead, he will never again go down to the dead; death has no more power over him. 10 For his death was a death to sin, but his life now is a life which he is living to God. 11 Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.

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    21Which say there may be no touching, tasting, or taking in your hands,

    22(Rules which are all to come to an end with their use) after the orders and teaching of men?

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    3For your life on earth is done, and you have a secret life with Christ in God.

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    11In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

    12Having been put to death with him in baptism, by which you came to life again with him, through faith in the working of God, who made him come back from the dead.

    13And you, being dead through your sins and the evil condition of your flesh, to you, I say, he gave life together with him, and forgiveness of all our sins;

    14Having put an end to the handwriting of the law which was against us, taking it out of the way by nailing it to his cross;

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    2In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?

    3Or are you without the knowledge that all we who had baptism into Christ Jesus, had baptism into his death?

    4We have been placed with him among the dead through baptism into death: so that as Christ came again from the dead by the glory of the Father, we, in the same way, might be living in new life.

    5For, if we have been made like him in his death, we will, in the same way, be like him in his coming to life again;

    6Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.

    7Because he who is dead is free from sin.

    8But if we are dead with Christ, we have faith that we will be living with him;

  • Gal 2:19-21
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    19For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.

    20I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.

    21I do not make the grace of God of no effect: because if righteousness is through the law, then Christ was put to death for nothing.

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    8Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:

  • Rom 6:10-12
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    10For his death was a death to sin, but his life now is a life which he is living to God.

    11Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.

    12For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;

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    4In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.

    5For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.

    6But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

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    9You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one of his.

    10And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

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    12So then, my brothers, we are in debt, not to the flesh to be living in the way of the flesh:

    13For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.

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    19And not joined to the Head, from whom all the body, being given strength and kept together through its joins and bands, has its growth with the increase of God.

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    16For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths:

    17For these are an image of the things which are to come; but the body is Christ's.

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    20For this was not the teaching of Christ which was given to you;

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    1And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,

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    10Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right.

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    6As, then, you took Christ Jesus the Lord, so go on in him,

  • Gal 5:4
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    4You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace.

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    3So we, when we were young, were kept under the first rules of the world;

  • 1 Pet 4:2
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    2So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God.

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    24And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires.

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    9But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?

    10You keep days, and months, and fixed times, and years.

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    17But if, while we were desiring to get righteousness through Christ, we ourselves were seen to be sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? In no way!

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    17This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,

  • Col 3:1
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    1If then you have a new life with Christ, give your attention to the things of heaven, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.

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    2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

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    9Do not be turned away by different strange teachings, because it is good for your hearts to be made strong by grace, and not by meats, which were of no profit to those who took so much trouble over them.

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    21What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.

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    7Among whom you were living in the past, when you did such things.