Colossians 2:23

Even though they have the appearance of wisdom with their self-imposed worship and false humility achieved by an unsparing treatment of the body -- a wisdom with no true value -- they in reality result in fleshly indulgence.

Colossians 2:18

Let no one who delights in humility and the worship of angels pass judgment on you. That person goes on at great lengths about what he has supposedly seen, but he is puffed up with empty notions by his fleshly mind.

1 Timothy 4:8

For "physical exercise has some value, but godliness is valuable in every way. It holds promise for the present life and for the life to come."

1 Timothy 4:3

They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Genesis 3:5-6

for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will open and you will be like divine beings who know good and evil."

Matthew 23:27-28

"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15

For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

Ephesians 5:29

For no one has ever hated his own body but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church,

Colossians 2:8

Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you through an empty, deceitful philosophy that is according to human traditions and the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

Colossians 2:22

These are all destined to perish with use, founded as they are on human commands and teachings.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Neglecting

General references

Bible References

A shew

Genesis 3:5
for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will open and you will be like divine beings who know good and evil."
Matthew 23:27
"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean.
2 Corinthians 11:13
For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
1 Timothy 4:3
They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Will

Colossians 2:8
Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you through an empty, deceitful philosophy that is according to human traditions and the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

Neglecting

Ephesians 5:29
For no one has ever hated his own body but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church,

General references

Luke 5:38
Instead new wine must be poured into new wineskins.

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