²⁰If you have died with Christ to the world’s way of doing things, why do you let others tell you how to live? It’s as though you were still under the world’s influence.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations—

NIVNew International Version (2011)

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

CSBChristian Standard Bible

If you died with Christ to the elements of this world, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations:

NLTNew Living Translation

You have died with Christ, and he has set you free from the spiritual powers of this world. So why do you keep on following the rules of the world, such as,

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit to them as if living in the world?

KJV 1900King James Version

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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