Colossians 2:20New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— 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,
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— 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,
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— 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,
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— 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?
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— If ye have died, together with Christ, from the first principles of the world, why, as though alive in the world, are ye submitting to decrees,—
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— 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?
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— If then you be dead with Christ from the elements of this world, why do you yet decree as though living in the world?
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ fro the ordinances of the world, why, as though ye liued in ye world, are ye burdened with traditions?
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Wherefore if yee bee dead with Christ fro the rudiments of the world: why, as though liuing in the world, are ye subiect to ordinances?
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Therefore, if you have died with Christ and are apart from the principles of the world, why then should you be doomed as though living in the world?
John Etheridge Peshitta-Aramaic NT (1849)
— For if you are dead with the Meshiha from the principles of the world, why as if you lived in the world are you judged?
James Murdock Peshitta-Aramaic NT (1852)
— For if ye are dead with the Messiah from the rudiments of the world, why are ye judged as if ye were living in the world? |
Wherefore
3767 {3767} Primeοὖνoun{oon}
Apparently a primary word; (adverbially) certainly, or (conjugationally) accordingly.
if
1487 {1487} Primeεἰei{i}
A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc.
ye be dead
599 {0599} Primeἀποθνῄσκωapothnesko{ap-oth-nace'-ko}
From G0575 and G2348; to die off (literally or figuratively).
z5627 <5627> Grammar
Tense - Second Aorist (See G5780) Voice - Active (See G5784) Mood - Indicative (See G5791) Count - 2138 plus 1 in a variant reading in a footnote
with
4862 {4862} Primeσύνsun{soon}
A primary preposition denoting union; with or together (but much closer than G3326 or G3844), that is, by association, companionship, process, resemblance, possession, instrumentality, addition, etc.
Christ
5547 {5547} PrimeΧριστόςChristos{khris-tos'}
From G5548; anointed, that is, the Messiah, an epithet of Jesus.
from
575 {0575} Primeἀπόapo{ap-o'}
A primary particle; ' off', that is, away (from something near), in various senses (of place, time, or relation; literally or figuratively).
the
x3588 (3588) Complementὁho{ho}
The masculine, feminine (second) and neuter (third) forms, in all their inflections; the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom).
rudiments
4747 {4747} Primeστοιχεῖονstoicheion{stoy-khi'-on}
Neuter of a presumed derivative of the base of G4748; something orderly in arrangement, that is, (by implication) a serial ( basal, fundamental, initial) constituent (literally), proposition (figuratively).
of the
x3588 (3588) Complementὁho{ho}
The masculine, feminine (second) and neuter (third) forms, in all their inflections; the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom).
world,
2889 {2889} Primeκόσμοςkosmos{kos'-mos}
Probably from the base of G2865; orderly arrangement, that is, decoration; by implication the world (in a wide or narrow sense, including its inhabitants, literally or figuratively [morally]).
why,
5101 {5101} Primeτίςtis{tis}
Probably emphatic of G5100; an interrogitive pronoun, who, which or what (in direct or indirect questions).
as though
5613 {5613} Primeὡςhos{hoce}
Probably adverb of comparative from G3739; which how, that is, in that manner (very variously used as shown).
living
2198 {2198} Primeζάωzao{dzah'-o}
A primary verb; to live (literally or figuratively).
z5723 <5723> Grammar
Tense - Present (See G5774) Voice - Active (See G5784) Mood - Participle (See G5796) Count - 2549
in
1722 {1722} Primeἐνen{en}
A primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place, time or state), and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or constructively), that is, a relation of rest (intermediate between G1519 and G1537); ' in', at, (up-) on, by, etc.
the world,
2889 {2889} Primeκόσμοςkosmos{kos'-mos}
Probably from the base of G2865; orderly arrangement, that is, decoration; by implication the world (in a wide or narrow sense, including its inhabitants, literally or figuratively [morally]).
are ye subject to ordinances,
1379 {1379} Primeδογματίζωdogmatizo{dog-mat-id'-zo}
From G1378; to prescribe by statute, that is, (reflexively) to submit to ceremonial rule.
z5743 <5743> Grammar
Tense - Present (See G5774) Voice - Passive (See G5786) Mood - Indicative (See G5791) Count - 271 |
Colossians 2:20
_ _ Wherefore — The oldest manuscripts omit “Wherefore.”
_ _ if ye be dead — Greek, “if ye died (so as to be freed) from,” etc. (compare Romans 6:2; Romans 7:2, Romans 7:3; Galatians 2:19).
_ _ rudiments of the world — (Colossians 2:8). Carnal, outward, worldly, legal ordinances.
_ _ as though living — as though you were not dead to the world like your crucified Lord, into whose death ye were buried (Galatians 6:14; 1 Peter 4:1, 1 Peter 4:2).
_ _ are ye subject to ordinances — By do ye submit to be made subject to ordinances? Referring to Colossians 2:14 : you are again being made subject to “ordinances,” the “handwriting” of which had been “blotted out” (Colossians 2:14). |
Colossians 2:20
Therefore — The inference begun, Colossians 2:16; is continued. A new inference follows, Colossians 3:1. If ye are dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world — That is, If ye are dead with Christ, and so freed from them, why receive ye ordinances — Which Christ hath not enjoined, from which he hath made you free. |
Colossians 2:20
(20) Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, (e) as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
(20) Now last of all he fights against the second type of corruptions, that is to say, against mere superstitions, invented by men, which partly deceive the simplicity of some with their craftiness, and partly with their foolish superstitions and to be laughed at: as when godliness, remission of sins, or any such like virtue, is put in some certain type of meat, and such like things, which the inventors of such rites themselves do not understand, because indeed it is not there. And he uses an argument taken of comparison. If by the death of Christ who established a new covenant with his blood, you are delivered from those external rites with which it pleased the Lord to prepare the world, as it were by certain rudiments, to that full knowledge of true religion, why would you be burdened with traditions, I know not what, as though you were citizens of this world, that is to say, as though you depended upon this life, and earthly things? Now this is the reason why before verse eight he followed another order than he does in the refutation: because he shows by this what degrees false religions came into the world, that is, beginning first by curious speculations of the wise, after which in process of time succeeded gross superstition, against which mischiefs the Lord set at length that service of the Law, which some abused in like sort. But in the refutation he began with the abolishing of the Law service, that he might show by comparison, that those false services ought much more to be taken away.
(e) As though your felicity stood in these earthly things, and the kingdom of God was not rather spiritual. |
- if:
Colossians 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Romans 6:2-11 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? ... Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 7:4-6 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, [even] to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. ... But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the letter.
Galatians 2:19-20 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. ... I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Galatians 6:14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
1 Peter 4:1-3 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; ... For the time past of [our] life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
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Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Ephesians 2:15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, [even] the law of commandments [contained] in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, [so] making peace;
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- living:
John 15:19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
John 17:14-16 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. ... They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
2 Corinthians 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
1 John 5:19 [And] we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
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Colossians 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
Colossians 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath [days]:
Galatians 4:3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
Galatians 4:9-12 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? ... Brethren, I beseech you, be as I [am]; for I [am] as ye [are]: ye have not injured me at all.
Hebrews 13:9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For [it is] a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
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