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Colossians 2:20

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:

Colossians 2:20 BSB

Colossians 2:20 has 18 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 18 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Colossians 2:8 (15 votes) and Galatians 4:3 (12 votes). 26 other verses point back to it. It links with 16 other books, from Exodus 27 to 1 John 5.

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Which verses does Colossians 2:20 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Colossians 2:815 votes

    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.

  2. Galatians 4:312 votes

    So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world.

  3. Colossians 2:1412 votes

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

  4. Colossians 2:1612 votes

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

  5. Romans 7:4–610 votes

    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. 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. …

  6. Hebrews 13:98 votes

    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.

  7. 1 John 5:198 votes

    We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.

  8. 2 Corinthians 10:37 votes

    For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.

  9. Galatians 2:19–207 votes

    For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

  10. Galatians 4:9–127 votes

    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 principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again? You are observing special days and months and seasons and years! …

  11. 1 Peter 4:1–37 votes
  12. John 15:196 votes
  13. John 17:14–166 votes
  14. Galatians 6:146 votes
  15. Ephesians 2:156 votes

    by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace

  16. James 4:46 votes
  17. Romans 6:2–115 votes
  18. Colossians 3:34 votes

Which verses point to Colossians 2:20?

The 10 strongest of 26.