Colossians 2:18

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

No

Beguile you

Colossians 2:16

In a voluntary humility

Colossians 2:23

Worshipping

1 Corinthians 8:5

1 Timothy 4:1

Intruding

1 Timothy 1:7

Vainly

Fleshly

Bible References

No

I say this to prevent any one from deceiving you by plausible arguments.

For false Christs and false Prophets will arise, and will display great signs and marvels, so that, were it possible, even God's People would be led astray.

For such persons are not serving Christ, our Master, but are slaves to their own appetites; and, by their smooth words and flattery, they deceive simple-minded people.

Yet I fear that it may turn out that, just as the Serpent by his craftiness deceived Eve, so your minds may have lost the loyalty and purity due from you to the Christ.

Do not let any one deceive you with specious arguments. Those are the sins that bring down the Wrath of God upon the disobedient.

They have eyes only for adulteresses, eyes never tired of sin; they entice weak souls; their minds are trained to covet; they live under a curse.

In writing thus to you, I have in mind those who are trying to mislead you.

Dear friends, do not trust every inspiration, but test each inspiration, to see whether it proceeds from God; because many false Prophets have gone out into the world.

I say this because many impostors have left us to go into the world--men who do not acknowledge Jesus as Christ come in our human nature. It is that which marks a man as an impostor and an anti-Christ.

I will come quickly. Hold to what you have received, that no one may take your crown.

Then the great Dragon, the primeval Serpent, known as the 'Devil' and 'Satan,' who deceives all the world, was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.

All who are living on earth will worship it--all whose names have not been written in the Lamb's Book of Life, the Lamb that has been sacrificed from the foundation of the world.

Beguile you

Do not, then, allow any one to take you to task on questions of eating or drinking, or in the matter of annual or monthly or weekly festivals.

In a voluntary humility

Such prohibitions appear reasonable where there is a desire for self-imposed service, and so-called 'humility,' and harsh treatment of the body, but are of no real value against the indulgence of our earthly nature.

Worshipping

Even supposing that there are so-called 'gods' either in Heaven or on earth-and there are many such 'gods' and 'lords'-

But the Spirit distinctly says that in later times there will be some who will fall away from the Faith, and devote their attention to misleading spirits, and to the teaching of demons,

Intruding

They want to be Teachers of the Law, and yet do not understand either the words they use, or the subjects on which they speak so confidently.

Vainly

Take care there is not some one who will carry you away by his 'philosophy'--a hollow sham!--following, as it does, mere human traditions, and dealing with puerile questions of this world, and not with Christ.

Some, I hear, are puffed up with pride, thinking that I am not coming to you.

With reference to food that has been offered in sacrifice to idols-We are aware that all of us have knowledge! Knowledge breeds conceit, while love builds up character.

Love is long-suffering, and kind; Love is never envious, never boastful, never conceited, never behaves unbecomingly;

Fleshly

To be earthly-minded means Death, to be spiritually minded means Life and Peace;

While there exist among you jealousy and party feeling, is it not true that you are worldly, and are acting merely as other men do?

For I am afraid that perhaps, when I come, I may find that you are not what I want you to be, and, on the other hand, that you may find that I am what you do not want me to be. I am afraid that I may find quarreling, jealousy, ill-feeling, rivalry, slandering, back-biting, self-assertion, and disorder.

The sins of our earthly nature are unmistakable. They are sins like these--unchastity, impurity, indecency,

But, while you harbor envy and bitterness and a spirit of rivalry in your hearts, do not boast or lie to the detriment of the Truth.

What is the cause of the fighting and quarreling that goes on among you? Is not it to be found in the desires which are always at war within you?