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

2 Peter 3:17

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

But beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheeps clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

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

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

Beware of dogs, beware of evil-workers,

Ye, therefore, beloved, knowing these things before, beware, lest ye also being led away by the error of the wicked fall from your own stedfastness:

Spoil

Let none defraud you of your reward by a voluntary humility and worship of angels, intruding into the things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

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

Let no one deceive you with vain words; for because of these things the wrath of God cometh upon the sons of disobedience.

Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines; for it is good, that the heart be stablished with grace, not with meats, in which they that have walked have not been profited.

This is the seducer and the antichrist. Look to yourselves, that we lose not the things we have wrought, but receive a full reward.

Philosophy

Then some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers incountered him: and some said, What would this babler say? Others, he seemeth to be a proclaimer of strange gods; because he preached to them Jesus, and the resurrection.

Because knowing God, they did not glorify him as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their reasonings, and their foolish heart was darkened.

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

Let none deceive himself: if any one among you thinketh himself to be wise, let him become a fool in this world, that he may become wise.

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

Destroying reasonings, and every high thing which exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

And their word will eat as a gangrene; of whom are Hymeneus and Philetus,

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

After the tradition

All which are to perish in the using) after the commandments and doctrines of men?

Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders?

Now the Pharisees and all the Jews, except they wash their hands to the wrist, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.

And I profited in the Jewish religion above many of my years among my countrymen, being more abundantly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

Seeing ye know ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation delivered by tradition from your fathers,

The rudiments

Therefore if ye are dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, receive ye ordinances,

So we also, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world.

who were dead in trespasses and sins, Wherein ye formerly 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 sons of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in time past,

After christ

But ye have not so learned Christ; Since ye have heard him,

General references

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