Colossians 2:4

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Summary

Colossians 2:4

And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.

Lest

Enticing

1 Corinthians 2:4

Bible References

Lest

Beware lest {anyone take you captive} through philosophy and empty deceit, according to {human tradition}, according to the elemental spirits of the world and not according to Christ,

And Jesus answered [and] said to them, "Watch out that no one deceives you!

For false messiahs and false prophets will appear, and will produce signs and wonders in order to mislead, if possible, the elect.

And from among you yourselves men will arise, speaking {perversions of the truth} in order to draw away the disciples after them.

For such people do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own stomach, and by smooth speech and flattery they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

But I am afraid lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds may be led astray from the sincerity and the purity of [devotion] to Christ.

Now [this was] because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, in order that they might enslave us,

so that we may no longer be infants, tossed about by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching, by the trickery of people, by craftiness with reference to the scheming of deceit.

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these [things] the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

whose coming is in accordance with the working of Satan, with all power and signs and lying wonders,

Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the last times some will depart from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,

But avoid pointless chatter, for it will progress to greater ungodliness,

But evil people and imposters will progress to the worse, deceiving and being deceived.

For there are many rebellious [people], idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

Therefore, ridding yourselves of all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,

Children, it is the last hour, and just as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen, by which we know that it is the last hour.

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits [to determine] if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess Jesus Christ coming in [the] flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist!

And the great dragon was thrown down, the ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

And all those who live on the earth will worship him, {everyone whose name is not written} from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slaughtered.

and threw him into the abyss, and shut [it] and sealed [it] above him, in order that he could not deceive the nations again until the thousand years are completed. After these [things] it is necessary [for] him to be released [for] a short time.

Enticing

and my speech and my preaching [were] not with the persuasiveness of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and power,