Colossians 2:8

Beware Of Requirements Invented By Humans

⁷ Rooted in him, building up your characters through union with him, growing stronger through your faith, as you were taught, overflowing with faith and thanksgiving. ⁸ Take care there is not some one who will carry you away by his 'philosophy'--a hollow sham!--following, as it does, mere human traditions, and dealing with puerile questions of this world, and not with Christ. ⁹ For in Christ the Godhead in all its fulness dwells incarnate;

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

Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the profane prattle and contradictions of what some miscall 'theology,'

Galatians 4:3

And so is it with us; when we were under age, as it were, we were slaves to the puerile teaching of this world;

Ephesians 5:6

Do not let any one deceive you with specious arguments. Those are the sins that bring down the Wrath of God upon the disobedient.

Colossians 2:20

Since, with Christ, you became dead to the puerile teaching of this world, why do you submit, as though your life were still that of the world,

Matthew 7:15

Beware of false Teachers--men who come to you in the guise of sheep, but at heart they are ravenous wolves.

Matthew 10:17

Be on your guard against your fellow men, for they will betray you to courts of law, and scourge you in their Synagogues;

Matthew 15:2-9

"How is it that your disciples break the traditions of our ancestors? For they do not wash their hands when they eat food."

Matthew 16:6

Presently Jesus said to them: "Take care and be on your guard against the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

Mark 7:3-13

(For the Pharisees, and indeed all strict Jews, will not eat without first scrupulously washing their hands, holding in this to the traditions of their ancestors.

Acts 17:18

Among others, some Epicurean and Stoic Philosophers joined issue with him. Some would ask "What is this prater wanting to make out?", while others would say "He seems to be a Preacher of foreign Deities." (This was because he was telling the Good News about Jesus and the Resurrection).

Acts 17:32

On hearing of a resurrection of the dead, some began jeering, but others said that they would hear what he had to say about that another time.

Romans 1:21-22

Because, although they learned to know God, yet they did not offer him as God either praise or thanksgiving. Their speculations about him proved futile, and their undiscerning minds were darkened.

Romans 16:17

I urge you, Brothers, to be on your guard against people who, by disregarding the teaching which you received, cause divisions and create difficulties; dissociate yourselves from them.

1 Corinthians 1:19-23

For Scripture says-'I will bring the philosophy of the philosophers to nought, and the shrewdness of the shrewd I will make of no account.'

1 Corinthians 3:18-19

Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you imagines that, as regards this world, he is a wise man, let him become a 'fool,' that he may become wise.

1 Corinthians 15:35-36

Some one, however, may ask 'How do the dead rise? and in what body will they come?'

2 Corinthians 10:5

We are engaged in confuting arguments and pulling down every barrier raised against the knowledge of God. We are taking captive every hostile thought, to bring it into submission to the Christ,

Galatians 1:14

And how, in my devotion to Judaism, I surpassed many of my contemporaries among my own people in my intense earnestness in upholding the traditions of my ancestors.

Galatians 4:9

But now that you have found God--or, rather, have been found by him--how is it that you are turning back to that poor and feeble puerile teaching, to which yet once again you are wanting to become slaves?

Ephesians 2:2

For at one time you lived in sin, following the ways of the world, in subjection to the Ruler of the Powers of the air--the Spirit who is still at work among the disobedient.

Ephesians 4:20

But far different is the lesson you learned from the Christ-- if, that is, you really listened to him,

Philippians 3:2

Beware of those 'dogs'! Beware of those mischievous workers! Beware of the men who mutilate themselves!

Colossians 2:18

Do not let any one defraud you of the reality by affecting delight in so-called 'humility' and angel-worship. Such a man busies himself with his visions, and without reason is rendered conceited by his merely human intellect.

Colossians 2:22

For all the things referred to in them cease to exist when used. You are following mere human directions and instructions.

2 Timothy 2:17-18

and their teaching will spread like a cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus are instances of this.

2 Timothy 3:13

but wicked people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and deceived themselves.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not let yourselves be carried away by the various novel forms of teaching. It is better to rely for spiritual strength upon the divine help, than upon regulations regarding food; for those whose lives are guided by such regulations have not found them of service.

1 Peter 1:18

For you know that it was not by perishable things, such as silver and gold, that you were Ransomed from the aimless way of living which was handed down to you from your ancestors,

2 Peter 3:17

Do you, therefore, dear friends, now that you know this beforehand, be on your guard against being led away by the errors of reckless people, and so lapsing from your present steadfastness;

2 John 1:8

Take care that you do not lose the fruit of all our work; rather, reap the benefit of it in full.