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

'Take heed to thyself lest thou forget Jehovah who hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants;

'But, take heed of the false prophets, who come unto you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves.

And, take ye heed of men, for they will give you up to sanhedrims, and in their synagogues they will scourge you,

and Jesus said to them, 'Beware, and take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees;'

look to the dogs, look to the evil-workers, look to the concision;

Ye, then, beloved, knowing before, take heed, lest, together with the error of the impious being led away, ye may fall from your own stedfastness,

Spoil

let no one beguile you of your prize, delighting in humble-mindedness and in worship of the messengers, intruding into the things he hath not seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

Seize ye for us foxes, Little foxes -- destroyers of vineyards, Even our sweet-smelling vineyards.

For thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Let not your prophets who are in your midst, and your diviners, lift you up, nor hearken ye unto their dreams, that ye are causing them to dream;

And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;

Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

with teachings manifold and strange be not carried about, for it is good that by grace the heart be confirmed, not with meats, in which they who were occupied were not profited;

See to yourselves that ye may not lose the things that we wrought, but a full reward may receive;

Philosophy

And certain of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers, were meeting together to see him, and some were saying, 'What would this seed picker wish to say?' and others, 'Of strange demons he doth seem to be an announcer;' because Jesus and the rising again he did proclaim to them as good news,

because, having known God they did not glorify Him as God, nor gave thanks, but were made vain in their reasonings, and their unintelligent heart was darkened,

for it hath been written, 'I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will bring to nought;'

Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age -- let him become a fool, that he may become wise,

But some one will say, 'How do the dead rise?

reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,

and their word as a gangrene will have pasture, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus,

and evil men and impostors shall advance to the worse, leading astray and being led astray.

After the tradition

which are all for destruction with the using, after the commands and teachings of men,

'Wherefore do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they do not wash their hands when they may eat bread.'

for the Pharisees, and all the Jews, if they do not wash the hands to the wrist, do not eat, holding the tradition of the elders,

and I was advancing in Judaism above many equals in age in mine own race, being more abundantly zealous of my fathers' deliverances,

having known that, not with corruptible things -- silver or gold -- were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers,

The rudiments

If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?

so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,

in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,

After christ

and ye did not so learn the Christ,

General references

and a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him, because they have not known the voice of strangers.'