Colossians 2:4

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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

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.

Jesus answered them, "Watch out that no one misleads you.

For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, the elect.

Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them.

For these are the kind who do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By their smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of the naive.

But I am afraid that just as the serpent deceived Eve by his treachery, your minds may be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

Now this matter arose because of the false brothers with false pretenses who slipped in unnoticed to spy on our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, to make us slaves.

So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.

Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God's wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.

The arrival of the lawless one will be by Satan's working with all kinds of miracles and signs and false wonders,

Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the later times some will desert the faith and occupy themselves with deceiving spirits and demonic teachings,

But avoid profane chatter, because those occupied with it will stray further and further into ungodliness,

But evil people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves.

For there are many rebellious people, idle talkers, and deceivers, especially those with Jewish connections,

So get rid of all evil and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

Children, it is the last hour, and just as you heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. We know from this 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, people who do not confess Jesus as Christ coming in the flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist!

So that huge dragon -- the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world -- was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him.

and all those who live on the earth will worship the beast, everyone whose name has not been written since the foundation of the world in the book of life belonging to the Lamb who was killed.

The angel then threw him into the abyss and locked and sealed it so that he could not deceive the nations until the one thousand years were finished. (After these things he must be released for a brief period of time.)

Enticing

My conversation and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,