Col 2:20-23 weekly devotion

[clark thompson]

Colossians 2:20King James Version (KJV)
20 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,

Easy English Bible

v20 You have died with Christ. So you do not have to obey the rules that belong to this world. You do not belong to this world now. So you should not still obey its rules! You do not need to obey rules like this:

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These are my thoughts.
We should be focused on the world as much as we are with God; we are free from the world.

[clark thompson]

Mark 2:21King James Version (KJV)

21 No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse.

EasyEnglish Bible

v21 ‘Do not touch this thing! Do not taste that food! Keep away from that thing!’

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These are my thoughts.
There are things the Lord does not want us to do, He knows best.

[clark thompson]

Colossians 2:22King James Version (KJV)
22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?

EasyEnglish Bible
v22 Rules like that are only about things that will finish. Those things are like things that people use. But they are destroying those things while they are using them. Rules like that are only rules that people teach.

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These are my thoughts.
We need to worry about God’s commands, which are eternal, before we worry about mans commandments, which will pass.

[clark thompson]

Colossians 2:23King James Version (KJV) 23 Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body: not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.


EasyEnglish Bible

v23 Rules like that may seem to be clever people’s rules. They try to cause people to *worship in certain ways. They cause people to hurt themselves, so that they can rule their bodies. So those people seem to be obeying God. But really, they are not obeying him. Those rules cannot really help people to rule what their bodies want. Those rules are not really worth anything. By those rules people can still do all the bad things that they want to do.
© 1997-2008, Wycliffe Associates (UK)

These are my thoughts.
There will be tells to those who just go thru the motions of faith.