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

you shall be on guard lest you forget Jehovah who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves.

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

But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to the sanhedrins, and they will scourge you in their synagogues.

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

Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision party.

Therefore, beloved, knowing beforehand, beware lest being led away with the error of the lawless, you fall from your own steadfastness.

Spoil

Let no one defraud you, delighting in humility and worship of the angels, intruding into things which he has not seen, without a cause being vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines; for our vines have tender grapes.

For so says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your fortune-tellers in your midst deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you dream.

And I exhort you, brothers, to watch those making divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you have learned, and avoid them.

Let no man deceive you with vain words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience.

Do not be carried about with different and strange doctrines, for it is good for the heart to be established with grace, not with foods, in which those who have walked in them were not helped.

Look to yourselves, so that we may not lose those things which we worked out, but that we may receive a full reward.

Philosophy

And certain philosophers from the Epicureans and from the Stoics met him. And some said, What will this babbler say? And others said, He seems to be an announcer of foreign demons (because he preached Jesus and the resurrection to them).

Because, knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, neither were thankful. But they became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the understanding of the perceiving ones."

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool so that he may be wise.

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

pulling down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought into the obedience of Christ;

And their word will eat like a gangrene; among whom are Hymeneus and Philetus,

But evil men and seducers will go forward to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

After the tradition

which things are all for corruption in the using, according to the commands and doctrines of men?

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

For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they immerse their hands with the fist, holding the tradition of the elders.

And I progressed in Judaism beyond many contemporaries in my race, being much more a zealot of the traditions of my fathers.

knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers,

The rudiments

If then you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, are you subject to its ordinances:

Even so we, when we were infants, were in bondage under the elements of the world.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience;

After christ

But you have not so learned Christ,

General references

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