Colossians 2:8
Beware of anyone getting hold of you by means of a theosophy which is specious make-believe, on the lines of human tradition, corresponding to the Elemental spirits of the world and not to Christ.
1 Timothy 6:20
O Timotheus, keep the securities of the faith intact: avoid the profane jargon and contradictions of what is falsely called 'Knowledge.'
Galatians 4:3
So with us. When we were under age, we lived under the thraldom of the Elemental spirits of the world;
Ephesians 5:6
Let no one deceive you with specious arguments; these are the vices that bring down God's anger on the sons of disobedience.
Colossians 2:20
As you died with Christ to the Elemental spirits of the world, why live as if you still belonged to the world? Why submit to rules and regulations like
Matthew 7:15
Beware of false prophets; they come to you with the garb of sheep but at heart they are ravenous wolves.
Matthew 10:17
Beware of men, they will hand you over to sanhedrins and scourge you in their synagogues,
Matthew 15:2-9
"Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands when they take their food."
Matthew 16:6
Jesus said to them, "See and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."
Mark 7:3-13
(The Pharisees and all the Jews decline to eat till they wash their hands up to the wrist, in obedience to the tradition of the elders;
Acts 17:18
Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also came across him. Some said, "Whatever does the fellow mean with his scraps of learning'?" Others said, "He looks like a herald of foreign deities" (this was because he preached 'Jesus' and 'the Resurrection').
Acts 17:32
But on hearing of a 'resurrection of dead men,' some sneered, while others said, "We will hear you again on that subject."
Romans 1:21-22
Though they knew God, they have not glorified him as God nor given thanks to him; they have turned to futile speculations till their ignorant minds grew dark.
Romans 16:17
Brothers, I beg of you to keep your eye on those who stir up dissensions and put hindrances in your way, contrary to the doctrine which you have been taught. Avoid them.
1 Corinthians 1:19-23
It is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the sages, I will confound the insight of the wise.
1 Corinthians 3:18-19
Let no one deceive himself about this; whoever of you imagines he is wise with this world's wisdom must become a 'fool,' if he is really to be wise.
1 Corinthians 15:35-36
But, someone will ask, 'how do the dead rise? What kind of body have they when they come?'
Galatians 1:14
and how I outstripped many of my own age and race in my special ardour for the ancestral traditions of my house.
Galatians 4:9
but now that you know God ??or rather, are known by God ??how is it you are turning back again to the weakness and poverty of the Elemental spirits? Why do you want to be enslaved all over again by them?
Ephesians 2:2
in which you moved as you followed the course of this world, under the sway of the prince of the air ??the spirit which is at present active within those sons of disobedience
Ephesians 4:20
That is not how you have understood the meaning of Christ
Colossians 2:18
Let no one lay down rules for you as he pleases, with regard to fasting and the cult of angels, presuming on his visions and inflated by his sensuous notions,
2 Timothy 2:17-18
and their doctrine spreads like a gangrene. So it is with Hymenaeus and Philetus;
2 Timothy 3:13
Bad characters and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and deceived themselves;
Hebrews 13:9
Never let yourselves be carried away with a variety of novel doctrines; for the right thing is to have one's heart strengthened by grace, not by the eating of food ??that has never been any use to those who have had recourse to it.
1 Peter 1:18
you know it was not by perishable silver or gold that you were ransomed from the futile traditions of your past,
2 Peter 3:17
Now, beloved, you are forewarned: mind you are not carried away by the error of the lawless and so lose your proper footing;
2 John 1:8
Watch yourselves; you must not lose what you have been working for, but gain a full reward.