KJV - 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,

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

BBE - 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

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

YLT - 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?

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