Colossians 2:18

Beware Of Requirements Invented By Humans

¹⁷ These were but the shadow of what was coming; the reality belongs to Christ. ¹⁸ Stop letting anyone, in gratuitous humility and worship of angels, defraud you as an umpire, for such a one is taking his stand on the mere visions he has seen, and is groundlessly conceited over his sensuous mind. ¹⁹ Such a person is not continuing in connection with the Head, from which the whole body, when supplied and united through its joints and sinews, grows with a growth that God produces.

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Colossians 2:23

Such practices have the outward expression of wisdom, with their self-imposed devotions, their self-humiliation, their torturings of the body, but they are of no value; they really satisfy the lower nature.

Colossians 2:8

Take care that nobody captures you by the idle fancies of his so-called philosophy, following human tradition and the world's crude notions instead of Christ.

1 Timothy 1:7

They want to be teachers of the law, although they do not understand the words they use or the things about which they make such confident assertions.

Matthew 24:24

for false Christs and false prophets will announce themselves, and they will show great signs and wonders to mislead, if possible, God's chosen people.

Romans 1:25

for they had utterly transformed the reality of God into what was unreal, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

Romans 8:6-8

For to be thinking the things suggested by the lower nature means death, but to be thinking the things suggested by the Spirit means life and peace.

Romans 16:18

For such men are really not serving our Lord Christ but their own base appetites, and by their fair and flattering talk they are deceiving the hearts of unsuspecting people.

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still unspiritual. For when there are still jealousy and wrangling among you, are you not still unspiritual and living by a human standard?

1 Corinthians 4:18

But some of you have become conceited over the thought that I am not coming to see you.

1 Corinthians 8:1

Now about the foods that have been sacrificed to idols: We know that every one of us has some knowledge of the matter. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

1 Corinthians 8:5-6

For even if there are so-called gods in heaven or on earth -- as there are, indeed, a vast number of gods and lords --

1 Corinthians 9:24

Do you not know that in a race the runners all run, but only one can get the prize? You must run in such a way that you can get the prize.

1 Corinthians 13:4

Love is so patient and so kind; love never boils with jealousy; it never boasts, is never puffed with pride;

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am apprehensive that, somehow or other, as the serpent by his cunning deceived Eve, your thoughts may be turned aside from single-hearted devotion to Christ.

2 Corinthians 12:20

I repeat it, I am apprehensive that, somehow or other, there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, rivalries, slanders, gossiping, haughty pride, and disorders,

Galatians 5:19-20

Now the practices of the lower nature are clear enough: Sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,

Ephesians 5:6

Stop letting anyone deceive you with groundless arguments about these things, for it is because of these very sins that God's anger comes down upon the disobedient.

Philippians 3:14

I am pressing onward toward the goal, to win the prize to which God through Jesus Christ is calling us upward.

Colossians 2:4

I am saying this to keep anyone from misleading you by persuasive arguments.

1 Timothy 4:1

Now the Spirit distinctly declares that in later times some will turn away from the faith, because they continuously give their attention to deceiving spirits and the things that demons teach

James 3:14-16

But if you cherish bitter jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, stop being proud of it and stop being false to the standard of truth.

James 4:1-6

What causes wars and quarrels among you? Is it not your different desires which are ever at war within your bodies? You desire things and cannot have them, and so you commit murder.

2 Peter 2:14

They have eyes full of adultery and insatiable by sin. They practice enticing unsteady souls. They have trained their hearts in greed. They are doomed to a curse!

1 John 2:26

I write you this with reference to those who are trying to lead you astray,

1 John 4:1-2

Dearly beloved, stop believing every so-called spiritual utterance, but keep testing them to see whether they come from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

2 John 1:7-11

For many impostors have gone out into the world, men who do not own that Jesus Christ continues to come in human form. A person like this is the impostor and the Antichrist.

Revelation 3:11

I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one may take away your crown.

Revelation 12:9

So the huge dragon, the ancient serpent, called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world, was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.

Revelation 13:8

All the inhabitants of the earth whose names, from the foundation of the world, have not been written in the slaughtered Lamb's book of life, will worship him.

Revelation 13:14

He leads the inhabitants of the earth astray because of the wonders he is permitted to perform in the presence of the wild beast, telling the inhabitants of the earth to erect a statue to the wild beast that bears the sword-thrust and yet has lived.

Revelation 19:10

Then I fell before his feet to worship him, but he said to me, "You must take care not to do that. I am only a fellow-slave of yours and of your brothers who hold to the testimony borne by Jesus. Worship God. For the testimony borne by Jesus is the inspiring spirit of prophecy."

Revelation 22:8-9

It is I, John, who heard and saw these things. When I heard and saw them, I fell at the feet of the angel who was showing them to me, to worship him.