Colossians 2:8

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Colossians 2:8

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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

then take care for yourself, so that you [do] not forget Yahweh, who brought you out from the land of Egypt from the house of slavery.

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

But beware of people, because they will hand you over to councils, and they will flog you in their synagogues.

And Jesus said to them, "Watch out for and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the mutilation.

Therefore, dear friends, [because you] know [this] beforehand, guard yourselves so that you do not lose your own safe position [because you] have been led away by the error of lawless persons.

Spoil

Let no one condemn you, taking pleasure in humility and the worship of angels, going into detail [about] [the things] which he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind,

Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes destroying vineyards, for our vineyards [are in] blossom!

For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Do not let your prophets who [are] in your midst, and your diviners, deceive you, and you must not listen to your dreams that you [are] causing [them] to dream.

Now I exhort you, brothers, to look out for those who cause dissensions and temptations contrary to the teaching which you learned, and stay away from them.

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these [things] the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

Do not be carried away by various and strange teachings, for [it is] good [for] the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods by which those who participate have not benefited.

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

Philosophy

And even some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him, and some were saying, "What does this babbler want to say?" But [others said], "He appears to be a proclaimer of foreign deities," because he was proclaiming the good news [about] Jesus and the resurrection.

For [although they] knew God, they did not honor [him] as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their reasoning, and their senseless hearts were darkened.

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will confound."

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks [himself] to be wise among you in this age, let him become a fool, in order that he may become wise.

But someone will say, "How are the dead raised? And with what sort of body do they come?"

and all pride that is raised up against the knowledge of God, and taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.

and their message {will spread} like gangrene, among whom are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

But evil people and imposters will progress to the worse, deceiving and being deceived.

After the tradition

which [things] are all [meant] for destruction by consuming according to human commandments and teachings,

"Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat {a meal}."

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands {ritually}, [thus] holding fast to the traditions of the elders.

and was progressing in Judaism beyond many contemporaries in my nation, [because] I was a far more zealous adherent of the traditions handed down by my forefathers.

[because you] know that you were redeemed from your futile way of life inherited from your ancestors not with perishable things like silver or gold,

The rudiments

If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit [to them] as [if] living in the world?

So also we, when we were children, we were enslaved under the elemental spirits of the world.

in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit now working in the sons of disobedience,

After christ

But you did not learn Christ in this way,

General references

And they will never follow a stranger, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."