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,
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4 additional translationsIf ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,
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?
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:
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?
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About this book
New TestamentColossians — Christ is preeminent — creator and sustainer, the head of the body, the reconciler of all things. Against every philosophy and empty deceit, the full sufficiency of Christ.
- Author
- Paul, with Timothy (1:1)
- Date
- c. AD 60–62, from Roman imprisonment