Colossians 2:20

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:

Berean Standard Bible
Other translations

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,

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,

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,

Geneva Bible 1599

Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the ordinances of the world, why, as though ye liued in ye world, are ye burdened with traditions?

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?

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?

Bible in Basic English

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

In context

19He 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.

21“Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”?

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