Colossians 2:8

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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

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

Watch to thyself lest thou shalt forget Jehovah who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of servants,

And hold from false prophets which come in to you in sheep's dresses, but within they are rapacious wolves.

And hold ye from men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their assemblies will they scourge you.

And Jesus said to them, Attend and keep from the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.

Look out for dogs, look out for evil workmen, look out for the incision.

You therefore, dearly beloved, knowing beforehand, watch, lest, led away by the error of the lawless, ye fall from your own stability.

Spoil

Let none condemn you being willing in humility and religious worship of angels, going into what he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

Seize for us the foxes, the little foxes destroying the vineyards: and our vineyards are in blossom.

For thus said Jehovah of armies, God of Israel, Your prophets in the midst of you shall not deceive to you, and your diviners and you shall not hear to your dreams which ye dream.

And I beseech you, brethren, to observe narrowly them having made divisions and scandals against the teaching which ye learned; and bend away from them.

Let none lead you astray with vain words: for by these things comes the anger of God upon the sons of disobedience.

With various and strange teachings be not carried about. For good the heart be rendered firm by grace; not by food, in which they having walked about were not profited.

Look to yourselves, lest we should destroy what things we have wrought, but we should receive a full reward.

Philosophy

And certain of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers deliberated with him. And certain said, What may this idle, talkative man wish to say? and others, He seems to be a declarer of strange demons: because he announced to them good news, and the rising up.

Wherefore having known God, not as God did they honour or return thanks; but were rendered vain in their conversations, and their heart without understanding was darkened.

For it has been written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and put away the understanding of the intelligent.

Let none completely deceive himself. If any think to be wise in this life, let him be foolish, that he may he wise.

But some one will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?

Taking down reckonings, and every elevation lifted up against the knowledge of God, and taking captive every thought to the obedience of Christ;

And this word as a gangrene, will have an eating ulcer: of whom is Hymeneus and Philetus;

And evil men and impostors shall proceed to worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

After the tradition

Which are all for corruption in the using;) according to the commands and doctrines of men?

Wherefore do thy disciples pass by the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they vigorously wash hands, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.

And I advanced in Judaism above many like in my race, being more abundantly zealous of paternal traditions.

Knowing that not with corruptible things, silver and gold, were ye redeemed from your vain mode of life transmitted from your fathers

The rudiments

If therefore ye died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as living in the world, do ye dogmatize,

So also we, when we were children, were subjugated under the world's elements:

In which when ye walked according to the life of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, of the spirit now energetic in the sons of disobedience:

After christ

And ye have not so learned Christ;

General references

And a stranger they would not follow, but they will flee from him : for they know not the voice of strangers.