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 beware, lest thou forget the LORD which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, the house of bondage.

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

Beware of men: for they shall deliver you up to the councils, and shall scourge you in their synagogues;

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

Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers. Beware of dissension:

Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know it beforehand: Beware, lest ye be also plucked away with the error of the wicked, and fall from your own steadfastness;

Spoil

Let no man make you shoot at a wrong mark, which after his own imagination walketh in the humbleness and holiness of angels, things which he never saw: causeless, puffed up with his fleshly mind,

Get us the foxes, yea the little foxes that hurt the vines, for our vines bear blossoms.

"For thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Let not those prophets and soothsayers that be among you deceive you: and believe not your own dreams.

I beseech you, brethren: mark them which cause division, and give occasions of evil contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

Let no man deceive you with vain words. For through such things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of unbelief.

Be not carried about with divers and strange learning. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace, and not with meats, which have not profited them that have had their pastime in them.

Look on yourselves, that we lose not that we have wrought: but that we may have a full reward.

Philosophy

Certain Philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, disputed with him. And some there were which said, "What will this babbler say?" Others said, "He seemeth to be a tidings-bringer of new devils," because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.

inasmuch as when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful: but waxed full of vanities in their imaginations. And their foolish hearts were blinded.

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and will cast away the understanding of the prudent."

Let no man deceive himself. If any man seem wise among you, let him be a fool in this world, that he may be wise.

But some man will say, "How shall the dead arise? With what bodies come they in?

wherewith we overthrow imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bring into captivity all understanding to the obedience of Christ,

and their words shall fret even as doth a canker: of whose number is Hymenaeus and Philetus,

But the evil men and deceivers, shall wax worse and worse, while they deceive, and are deceived themselves.

After the tradition

which all perish with the using of them, and are after the commandments, and doctrines of men:

"Why do thy disciples transgress the traditions of the elders? For they wash not their hands, when they eat bread."

For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands often, eat not; observing the traditions of the elders.

and prevailed in the Jews' law, above many of my companions, which were of mine own nation, and was a much more fervent maintainer of the traditions of the elders.

Forasmuch as ye know how that ye were not redeemed with corruptible gold and silver from your vain conversation, which ye received by the traditions of the fathers,

The rudiments

Wherefore, if ye be dead with Christ from ordinances of the world: Why as though ye yet lived in the world, are ye led with traditions of them that say

Even so we, as long as we were children, were in bondage under the ordinances of the world:

in the which, in time past, ye walked, according to the course of this world, and after the governor that ruleth in the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of unbelief,

After christ

But ye have not so learned Christ;

General references

A stranger they will not follow, but will fly from him. For they know not the voice of strangers."