Colossians 2:20

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Colossians 2:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible

18 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up without basis by his unspiritual mind.

19 He 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.

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:

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

22 These will all perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings.

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Romans 6:4

We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.

Romans 6:5

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Romans 6:6

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Romans 6:7

For anyone who has died has been freed from sin.

Romans 6:8

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Romans 6:9

For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, He cannot die again; death no longer has dominion over Him.

Romans 6:10

The death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God.

Romans 6:11

So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Romans 7:4

Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

Romans 7:5

For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.

Romans 7:6

But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

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For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.

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Galatians 6:14

But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

1 Peter 4:1

Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin.

1 Peter 4:2

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1 Peter 4:3

For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.

Colossians 2:8

See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.

Ephesians 2:15

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If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.

John 17:14

I have given them Your word and the world has hated them; for they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

John 17:15

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John 17:16

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2 Corinthians 10:3

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James 4:4

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having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!

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Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.

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I fear for you, that my efforts for you may have been in vain.

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I beg you, brothers, become like me, for I became like you. You have done me no wrong.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace and not by foods of no value to those devoted to them.