Colossians 2:8

Beware Of Requirements Invented By Humans

⁷ rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. ⁸ Beware lest there be some one who shall make a prey of you through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ. ⁹ For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily,

Basic Principles of the World

Be Careful

Elements of the World

Of the World

Of This World

Take Heed

Tradition of Men

Pay Attention

Rudiments Of The World

Christ

Messiah

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1 Timothy 6:20

O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding the profane babblings, and oppositions of the falselycalled knowledge;

Galatians 4:3

So also we, when we were children, were in bondage under the rudiments of the world;

Ephesians 5:6

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

Colossians 2:20

If ye died with Christ to the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances, such as,

Matthew 7:15

Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheeps clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

Matthew 10:17

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

Matthew 15:2-9

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

Matthew 16:6

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

Mark 7:3-13

(for the Pharisees, and all the Jews, unless they wash their hands often, do not eat, holding fast the tradition of the elders;

Acts 17:18

And some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, What doth this babbler mean to say? and others, He seemeth to be a setter forth of foreign gods; because he brought the glad tidings of Jesus and the resurrection.

Acts 17:32

And when they heard of a resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but ethers said, We will hear thee again about this matter.

Romans 1:21-22

Because though they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful to him; but became perverse in their reasonings, and their senseless minds were darkened;

Romans 16:17

But I exhort your brethren, to mark those who are causing divisions and offences, contrary to the doctrine which ye learned; and avoid them.

1 Corinthians 1:19-23

For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nought the discernment of the discerning."

1 Corinthians 3:18-19

Let no one deceive himself; if any one thinketh himself wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

1 Corinthians 15:35-36

But some one will say, How are the dead to rise? and with what body do they come?

2 Corinthians 10:5

casting down reasonings, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing every purpose into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

Galatians 1:14

and made progress in Judaism beyond many of the same age with me in my nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

Galatians 4:9

but now, after having known God, or rather having been known by God, how is it that ye are turning back to the weak and beggarly rudiments to which ye wish to be again in bondage?

Ephesians 2:2

in which ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience;

Ephesians 4:20

But not so did ye learn Christ,

Philippians 3:2

Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workmen, beware of the concision.

Colossians 2:18

Let no one defraud you of the prize, desiring to do it in humiliation and worshipping of the angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, puffed up without reason by the mind of his own flesh,

Colossians 2:22

(which all are to perish with the using,) after the commandments and teachings of men;

2 Timothy 2:17-18

and their word will eat as doth a canker; of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus,

2 Timothy 3:13

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

Hebrews 13:9

Be not carried aside with various and strange teachings; for it is good that the heart be established with grace, not with meats, in which those who walked were not profited.

1 Peter 1:18

knowing that not with perishable things, silver or gold, were ye redeemed from your vain manner of life received by tradition from your fathers,

2 Peter 3:17

Do ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things beforehand, beware lest, being led away with the error of the lawless, ye fall from your own steadfastness.

2 John 1:8

Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which ye wrought, but receive a full reward.