Colossians 2:8

Beware Of Requirements Invented By Humans

⁷ having the roots of your being firmly planted in Him, and continually building yourselves up in Him, and always being increasingly confirmed in the faith as you were taught it, and abounding in it with thanksgiving. ⁸ Take care lest there be some one who leads you away as prisoners by means of his philosophy and idle fancies, following human traditions and the world's crude notions instead of following Christ. ⁹ For it is in Christ that the fulness of God's nature dwells embodied, and in Him you are made complete,

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

No

1 Timothy 6:20

O Timothy, guard the truths entrusted to you, shunning irreligious and frivolous talk, and controversy with what is falsely called 'knowledge';

Galatians 4:3

So we also, when spiritually we were children, were subject to the world's rudimentary notions, and were enslaved.

Ephesians 5:6

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for it is on account of these very sins that God's anger is coming upon the disobedient.

Colossians 2:20

If you have died with Christ and have escaped from the world's rudimentary notions, why, as though your life still belonged to the world, do you submit to such precepts as

Matthew 7:15

"Beware of the false teachers--men who come to you in sheep's fleeces, but beneath that disguise they are ravenous wolves.

Matthew 10:17

But beware of men; for they will deliver you up to appear before Sanhedrins, and will flog you in their synagogues;

Matthew 15:2-9

"Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the Elders by not washing their hands before meals?"

Matthew 16:6

and when Jesus said to them, "See to it: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees,"

Mark 7:3-13

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews--being, as they are, zealous for the traditions of the Elders--never eat without first carefully washing their hands,

Acts 17:18

A few of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also encountered him. Some of them asked, "What has this beggarly babbler to say?" "His business," said others, "seems to be to cry up some foreign gods." This was because he had been telling the Good News of Jesus and the Resurrection.

Acts 17:32

When they heard Paul speak of a resurrection of dead men, some began to scoff. But others said, "We will hear you again on that subject."

Romans 1:21-22

For when they had come to know God, they did not give Him glory as God nor render Him thanks, but they became absorbed in useless discussions, and their senseless minds were darkened.

Romans 16:17

But I beseech you, brethren, to keep a watch on those who are causing the divisions among you, and are leading others into sin, in defiance of the instruction which you have received; and habitually to shun them.

1 Corinthians 1:19-23

For so it stands written, "I will exhibit the nothingness of the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will bring to nought."

1 Corinthians 3:18-19

Let no one deceive himself. If any man imagines that he is wise, compared with the rest of you, with the wisdom of the present age, let him become "foolish" so that he may be wise.

1 Corinthians 15:35-36

But some one will say, "How can the dead rise? And with what kind of body do they come back?"

2 Corinthians 10:5

For we overthrow arrogant 'reckonings,' and every stronghold that towers high in defiance of the knowledge of God, and we carry off every thought as if into slavery--into subjection to Christ;

Galatians 1:14

and how in devotion to Judaism I outstripped many men of my own age among my people, being far more zealous than they on behalf of the traditions of my forefathers.

Galatians 4:9

Now, however, having come to know God--or rather to be known by Him--how is it you are again turning back to weak and worthless rudimentary notions to which you are once more willing to be enslaved?

Ephesians 2:2

which were once habitual to you while you walked in the ways of this world and obeyed the Prince of the powers of the air, the spirits that are now at work in the hearts of the sons of disobedience--to you God has given Life.

Ephesians 4:20

But these are not the lessons which you have learned from Christ;

Philippians 3:2

Beware of 'the dogs,' the bad workmen, the self-mutilators.

Colossians 2:18

Let no one defraud you of your prize, priding himself on his humility and on his worship of the angels, and taking his stand on the visions he has seen, and idly puffed up with his unspiritual thoughts.

Colossians 2:22

referring to things which are all intended to be used up and perish--in obedience to mere human injunctions and teachings?

2 Timothy 2:17-18

and their teaching will spread like a running sore. Hymenaeus and Philetus are men of that stamp.

2 Timothy 3:13

But bad men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, misleading and being misled.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be drawn aside by all sorts of strange teaching; for it is well to have the heart made stedfast through God's grace, and not by special kinds of food, from which those who scrupulously attend to them have derived no benefit.

1 Peter 1:18

knowing, as you do, that it was not with a ransom of perishable wealth, such as silver or gold, that you were set free from your frivolous habits of life which had been handed down to you from your forefathers,

2 Peter 3:17

You, therefore, dear friends, having been warned beforehand, must continually be on your guard so as not to be led astray by the false teaching of immoral men nor fall from your own stedfastness.

2 John 1:8

Keep guard over yourselves, so that you may not lose the results of your good deeds, but may receive back a full reward.