Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
And I say this to the end that no one may delude you by persuasive speech.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
Holman Bible
I am saying this so that no one will deceive you with persuasive arguments.
International Standard Version
I say this so that no one will mislead you with nice-sounding rhetoric.
A Conservative Version
And I say this so that not any man may delude you with persuasive speech.
American Standard Version
This I say, that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.
Amplified
I say this so that no one will deceive you with persuasive [but thoroughly deceptive] arguments.
An Understandable Version
I say this so that no one will deceive you with persuasive arguments.
Anderson New Testament
Now I say this, that no one may deceive you by persuasive words.
Bible in Basic English
I say this so that you may not be turned away by any deceit of words.
Common New Testament
I say this so that no one may delude you with fine-sounding arguments.
Daniel Mace New Testament
I mention this, lest any one should deceive you by specious pretences.
Godbey New Testament
I say this in order that no one may deceive you with a persuasive speech.
Goodspeed New Testament
What I mean is, let nobody mislead you by specious arguments.
John Wesley New Testament
And this I say, that no man may beguile you with inticing words.
Julia Smith Translation
And this I say, lest any mislead you with persuasive arguments.
King James 2000
And this I say, lest any man should deceive you with enticing words.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I say this in order that no one will deceive you with persuasive speech,
Modern King James verseion
And I say this that not anyone should beguile you with enticing words.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
This I say lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
Moffatt New Testament
I say this to prevent you from being deluded by plausible arguments from anybody;
Montgomery New Testament
And this I say, lest any one should mislead you with enticing words.
NET Bible
I say this so that no one will deceive you through arguments that sound reasonable.
New Heart English Bible
Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.
Noyes New Testament
And this I say, that no one may impose on you by specious discourses.
Sawyer New Testament
But I say this that no one may mislead you with persuasive words.
The Emphasized Bible
This I say, in order that, no one, may be reasoning, you, aside with plausible discourse;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Now this I say, lest any man pervert you with specious discourse.
Twentieth Century New Testament
I say this to prevent any one from deceiving you by plausible arguments.
Webster
And this I say, lest any man should deceive you with enticing words.
Weymouth New Testament
I say this to prevent your being misled by any one's plausible sophistry.
Williams New Testament
I am saying this to keep anyone from misleading you by persuasive arguments.
World English Bible
Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.
Worrell New Testament
This I say, that no one may delude you with persuasive speech;
Worsley New Testament
And this I say, least any one should deceive you with fine speeches.
Youngs Literal Translation
and this I say, that no one may beguile you in enticing words,
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Verse Info
Context Readings
Christ Versus The Colossian Heresy
3 in which are hid all the treasures of wisdom and of knowledge. 4 And I say this to the end that no one may delude you by persuasive speech. 5 For if indeed in the flesh I am absent, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the firmness of your faith in Christ.
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Cross References
Ephesians 5:6
Let no one deceive you with vain words, for on account of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
Matthew 24:4
And Jesus answering said to them, See that no one mislead you.
Matthew 24:24
For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall give great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.
Mark 13:22
For false Christs and false prophets will arise, and give signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
Acts 20:30
and from among your own selves shall rise up men speaking perverted things to draw away the disciples after them.
Romans 16:18-19
For such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly, and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.
1 Corinthians 2:4
and my word and my preaching, not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power;
2 Corinthians 11:3
But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craft, so your thoughts should be corrupted from simplicity as to the Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:11-13
Why? because I do not love you? God knows.
Galatians 2:4
and it was on account of the false brethren brought in surreptitiously, who came in surreptitiously to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;
Ephesians 4:14
in order that we may be no longer babes, tossed and carried about by every wind of that teaching which is in the sleight of men, in unprincipled cunning with a view to systematized error;
Colossians 2:8
See that there be no one who shall lead you away as a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the teaching of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.
Colossians 2:18
Let no one fraudulently deprive you of your prize, doing his own will in humility and worship of angels, entering into things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,
2 Thessalonians 2:9-11
whose coming is according to the working of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,
1 Timothy 4:1-2
But the Spirit speaks expressly, that in latter times some shall apostatise from the faith, giving their mind to deceiving spirits and teachings of demons
2 Timothy 2:16
But profane, vain babblings shun, for they will advance to greater impiety,
2 Timothy 3:13
But wicked men and juggling impostors shall advance in evil, leading and being led astray.
Titus 1:10-11
For there are many and disorderly vain speakers and deceivers of people's minds, specially those of the circumcision,
1 Peter 2:1-3
Laying aside therefore all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings and all evil speakings,
1 John 2:18
Little children, it is the last hour, and, according as ye have heard that antichrist comes, even now there have come many antichrists, whence we know that it is the last hour.
1 John 2:26
These things have I written to you concerning those who lead you astray:
1 John 4:1
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, if they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2 John 1:7
For many deceivers have gone out into the world, they who do not confess Jesus Christ coming in flesh this is the deceiver and the antichrist.
Revelation 12:9
And the great dragon was cast out, the ancient serpent, he who is called Devil and Satan, he who deceives the whole habitable world, he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Revelation 13:8
and all that dwell on the earth shall do it homage, every one whose name had not been written from the founding of the world in the book of life of the slain Lamb.
Revelation 20:3
and cast him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, that he should not any more deceive the nations until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be loosed for a little time.
Revelation 20:8
and shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war, whose number is as the sand of the sea.