20 Since you died with Christ(A) to the elemental spiritual forces of this world,(B) why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules:(C)

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20 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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20 [a]Therefore, if you (A)died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, (B)why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations—

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  1. Colossians 2:20 NU, M omit Therefore

20 If with Christ (A)you died to the (B)elemental spirits of the world, (C)why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations—

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So also, when we were underage, we were in slavery(A) under the elemental spiritual forces[a] of the world.(B)

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  1. Galatians 4:3 Or under the basic principles

Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

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Even so we, when we were children, (A)were in bondage under the elements of the world.

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In the same way we also, when we were children, (A)were enslaved to the elementary principles[a] of the world.

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 4:3 Or elemental spirits; also verse 9