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:
See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and t
Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.
having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!
So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world.
Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him wh
We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.
Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace and n
Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in h
For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.
For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.
But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless p
But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucifi
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.
You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to
by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the
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,
Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?
For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.