Verse 20

If you died with Christ to the elemental principles of the world, why, as though still living in the world, do you submit to its decrees?

Other Translations

• Bibeloversettelse fra KJV1611 og Textus Receptus

  Hvis dere derfor er døde med Kristus fra verdens grunnprinsipper, hvorfor, som om dere lever i verden, underkaster dere dere forskriftene,

• NT, oversatt fra gresk

  Hvis dere da er døde sammen med Kristus fra verdens grunnleggende krefter, hvorfor lar dere da andre styre dere,

• Norsk King James

  Så hvis dere er døde med Kristus fra verdens grunnleggende prinsipper, hvorfor, som om dere levde i verden, er dere fortsatt underlagt regler,

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Hvis dere er døde med Kristus fra verdens grunnprinsipper, hvorfor lever dere da som om dere fortsatt tilhører verden og lar dere besvære av forskrifter:

• KJV/Textus Receptus til norsk

  Nå da dere er døde med Kristus fra verdens barnelærdommer, hvorfor lar dere da, som om dere fremdeles levde i verden, påbud føres inn på dere –

• Den norske oversettelsen av Det Nye Testamente

  Hvis dere derfor er døde med Kristus fra verdens grunnprinsipper, hvorfor er dere da, som levende i verden, underkastet forskrifter som:

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Hvis dere da er døde med Kristus bort fra verdens grunnprinsipper, hvorfor oppfører dere dere som om dere lever i verden, og lar dere underlegge forskrifter,

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Derfor, om dere er døde med Kristus og har brutt med verdens grunnleggende læresetninger, hvorfor lar dere dere så, som om dere levde i denne verden, tvinge under slike forskrifter?

• gpt4.5-preview

  Når dere altså er døde med Kristus fra verdens grunnsetninger, hvorfor lever dere, som om dere fremdeles tilhører verden, i samsvar med bud som:

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Når dere altså er døde med Kristus fra verdens grunnsetninger, hvorfor lever dere, som om dere fremdeles tilhører verden, i samsvar med bud som:

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Hvis dere da døde med Kristus fra verdens elementer, hvorfor, som om dere levde i verden, lar dere påføre dere forskrifter?

• NT, oversatt fra gresk Aug2024

  Hvis dere da døde med Kristus fra verdens grunnprinsipper, hvorfor, som om dere fortsatt levde i verden, legger dere lover på dere,

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Dersom I da ere afdøde med Christo fra Verdens Børnelærdom, hvi lade I eder da, som de, der leve i Verden, besvære med Anordninger:

• King James Version 1769 (Standard 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,

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Dersom dere er døde med Kristus fra verdens grunnleggende prinsipper, hvorfor lever dere da som om dere fortsatt tilhører verden, underlagt dens forskrifter?

• KJV1611 - Moderne engelsk

  Therefore if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations,

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  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,

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Hvis dere er døde med Kristus fra verdens elementer, hvorfor lever dere som om dere fortsatt tilhører verden, og underkaster dere forskrifter,

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Hvis dere da døde med Kristus fra verdens grunnleggende prinsipper, hvorfor lever dere da som i verden, underlagt forskrifter?

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Hvis dere døde med Kristus fra verdens grunnleggende prinsipper, hvorfor som om dere lever i verden, underordner dere dere forordninger,

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Hvis dere døde med Kristus fra verdens grunnprinsipper, hvorfor lever dere som om dere fortsatt var underlagt disse reglene?

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  Wherfore if ye be deed with Christ fro ordinaunces of the worlde why as though ye yet lived in the worlde are ye ledde with tradicios of them that saye?

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Wherfore yf ye be deed with Christ from the ordinaunces of the worlde, why are ye holden the with soch tradicions, as though ye lyued after the worlde? As whan they saye:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ fro the ordinances of the world, why, as though ye liued in ye world, are ye burdened with traditions?

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Wherfore, yf ye be dead with Christe from ye rudimentes of the world: why, as though lyuyng in the worlde, are ye led with traditions,

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  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,

• Webster's Bible (1833)

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

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?

• American Standard Version (1901)

  If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders

• World English Bible (2000)

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

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

Referenced Verses

• Gal 4:3 : 3 In the same way, we too, when we were children, were enslaved under the elemental principles of the world.
• Col 2:8 : 8 See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, based on human tradition and the elemental principles of the world rather than on Christ.
• Col 2:14 : 14 He erased the legal debt that stood against us with its decrees. He took it away, nailing it to the cross.
• Col 2:16 : 16 Therefore, let no one judge you in regard to food and drink or regarding a festival, a new moon, or Sabbaths.
• Gal 4:9-9 : 9 But now, having come to know God—or rather, having been known by God—how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles, whose slaves you want to be once more? 10 You observe days and months and seasons and years! 11 I fear for you, that perhaps my labor for you has been in vain. 12 I beg you, brothers: Become like me, for I also became like you. You have done me no wrong.
• Gal 6:14 : 14 But as for me, may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
• Eph 2:15 : 15 He has abolished the law with its commandments and regulations, so that He might create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace,
• John 15:19 : 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. But you do not belong to the world, for I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.
• John 17:14-16 : 14 I have given them Your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 15 I am not asking You to take them out of the world, but to protect them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
• Rom 7:4-6 : 4 Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another—to Him who was raised from the dead—in order that we might bear fruit for God. 5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death. 6 But now we have been released from the law, having died to what once bound us, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.
• 2 Cor 10:3 : 3 For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.
• Gal 2:19-20 : 19 For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ. 20 I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
• Col 3:3 : 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
• Heb 13:9 : 9 Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings. It is good for our hearts to be strengthened by God’s grace, not by eating ceremonial foods, which have not benefited those who have followed them.
• Jas 4:4 : 4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
• 1 Pet 4:1-3 : 1 Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body on our behalf, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because whoever suffers in the body has ceased from sin. 2 As a result, you should no longer live the rest of your earthly life for human desires but instead for the will of God. 3 For you have already spent enough time in the past doing what the Gentiles choose to do, living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.
• 1 John 5:19 : 19 We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.
• Rom 6:2-9 : 2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Or do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore, we were buried with Him by baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with Him in the likeness of His death, we will certainly also be united with Him in the resurrection. 6 We know this: our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, and we would no longer be enslaved to sin. 7 For the one who has died has been freed from sin. 8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him. 9 We know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has power over Him. 10 For the death He died, He died to sin once for all time; but the life He lives, He lives to God. 11 So you too consider yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.