MANNAFEST

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,

KJV

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ASV

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

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?

WEB

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:

DBT

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?

About this book

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ColossiansChrist 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

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