Colossians 2:20

2:20 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?

Galatians 4:3

4:3 So also we, when we were minors, were enslaved under the basic forces of the world.

Galatians 4:9

4:9 But now that you have come to know God (or rather to be known by God), how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless basic forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

Ephesians 2:2

2:2 in which you formerly lived according to this world’s present path, according to the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience,