Colossians 2:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Beware

2 Peter 3:17

Spoil

2 John 1:8

Philosophy

After the tradition

1 Peter 1:18

The rudiments

Colossians 2:20

Galatians 4:3

Ephesians 2:2

After christ

Ephesians 4:20

General references

John 10:5

Bible References

Beware

"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils and flog you in their synagogues.

Then Jesus said to them, "Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees."

Watch out for the dogs, watch out for the evil workers, watch out for those mutilators of the body.

You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of lawless men and fall from your own steadfastness.

Spoil

Let no one disqualify you for the prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, puffed up without cause by his fleshly mind,

I urge you, brethren, to take note of those who cause divisions and difficulties, contrary to the doctrine which you have learned; avoid them.

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Do not be carried away by varied and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what you have worked for, but that you may receive a full reward.

Philosophy

And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. Some said, "What would this idle babbler wish to say?" Others, "He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities,"because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.

for although they knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the cleverness of the clever I will frustrate."

Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is wise in this age, he must become a fool so that he may become wise.

But someone will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?"

We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ,

and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

while evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

After the tradition

(referring to things which are all destined perish with use), according to human commandments and teachings?

"Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat."

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands in a special way, holding the tradition of the elders.

and I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers.

You know that you were redeemed from the futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,

The rudiments

If with Christ you died to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you still belonged to it, do you submit to regulations such as,

So also, when we were children, we were in slavery under the elemental things of the world.

in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience.

After christ

But you did not learn Christ in this way,

General references

A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers."