“If you died with Christ from the elemental spirits of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Colossians 2 contains 23 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.