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 shouldst forget the LORD, who brought thee forth from the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

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 to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues.

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

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

Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.

Spoil

Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshiping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

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

For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that are in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.

Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

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

Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines: for it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied in them.

Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.

Philosophy

Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? some others, He seemeth to be a setter-forth of strange gods: because he preached to them Jesus, and the resurrection.

Because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

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

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

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

And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymeneus and Philetus;

But evil men and seducers will become worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

After the tradition

Which all are to perish with the using;) according to the commandments and doctrines of men?

Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition 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, holding the tradition of the elders.

And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain course of life received by tradition from your fathers;

The rudiments

Wherefore, if ye are dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,

Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

In which in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

After christ

But ye have not so learned Christ;

General references

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