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GNOSTICISM
1. Gnosticism proper.
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An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of the inexperienced, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law.
And I am persuaded my brethren, and I myself for you, that ye yourselves also are full of goodness, tilled with all knowledge, being able also to remind one another.
Which none of the rulers of this world knew: for if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
And the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: and he cannot know, for they are spiritually examined. And the spiritual truly examines all things, and he is examined by no one.
And the spiritual truly examines all things, and he is examined by no one.
And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as spiritual, but as carnal, as babes in Christ.
And concerning sacrifice to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, and love builds the house.
And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries, and all knowledge; and if I have all faith to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
Grace to God, always leading us to triumph in Christ, and making manifest the order of his knowledge by us in every place.
For God, having spoken light to shine out of darkness, who shone in our hearts, to the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
For you to try things differing; that ye may be pure and not stumbling to the day of Christ;
But surely, I also think all things to be loss for the superiority of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have been made to lose all things, and I think to be offscourings, that I shall gain Christ,
By the hope laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the good news;
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation: For by him were all things created, things in the heavens, and things upon earth, things visible and invisible, whether thrones, whether dominions, whether beginnings, whether authorities: all were created by him, and for him: read more. And he is before all, and all things have been established by him. And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that he might be the first in all
And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that he might be the first in all For in him was he pleased that all fulness should dwell: read more. And by him to reconcile all things anew to himself; having made peace by the blood of his cross, by him, whether things upon earth, whether things in the heavens.
In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
See ye lest any be carrying you off by philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.
See ye lest any be carrying you off by philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ. For in him dwells all the completion of divinity bodily.
For in him dwells all the completion of divinity bodily. And ye are completed in him, who is the head of all beginning and power:
And ye are completed in him, who is the head of all beginning and power: In whom also were ye circumcised with the circumcision not made by hands, in the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ;
In whom also were ye circumcised with the circumcision not made by hands, in the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ;
In whom also were ye circumcised with the circumcision not made by hands, in the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ; Buried together with him in immersion, in which also were ye risen together by the faith of the operation of God, having raised him from the dead.
Buried together with him in immersion, in which also were ye risen together by the faith of the operation of God, having raised him from the dead. And you, being dead in faults and uncircumcision of the flesh, he made alive together with him, having propitiated to you all faults;
And you, being dead in faults and uncircumcision of the flesh, he made alive together with him, having propitiated to you all faults; Having wiped out the handwriting against us in enactments, which was opposed to us, and he has taken it from the midst, having nailed it to his cross
Having wiped out the handwriting against us in enactments, which was opposed to us, and he has taken it from the midst, having nailed it to his cross Having stripped off beginnings and powers, he made an example in freedom of speech, having led them in triumph in it.
Having stripped off beginnings and powers, he made an example in freedom of speech, having led them in triumph in it. Therefore let not any judge you in food, or in drink, or in turn of festival, or of the new moon, or of sabbaths:
Therefore let not any judge you in food, or in drink, or in turn of festival, or of the new moon, or of sabbaths: Which are a shadow of things about to be; and the body of Christ.
Which are a shadow of things about to be; and the body of Christ. Let none condemn you being willing in humility and religious worship of angels, going into what he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,
Let none condemn you being willing in humility and religious worship of angels, going into what he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh, And not having power over the Head, from whom all the body, by all the senses of touch and connections furnished and joined together, increases with the increase of God.
And not having power over the Head, from whom all the body, by all the senses of touch and connections furnished and joined together, increases with the increase of God. If therefore ye died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as living in the world, do ye dogmatize,
If therefore ye died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as living in the world, do ye dogmatize, (Touch not; neither taste; neither shouldest thou handle;
(Touch not; neither taste; neither shouldest thou handle; Which are all for corruption in the using;) according to the commands and doctrines of men?
Which are all for corruption in the using;) according to the commands and doctrines of men? Which things truly are having the word of wisdom in worship according to one's will, and humility, and prodigality of the body; not in any honour to satisfying the flesh.
Which things truly are having the word of wisdom in worship according to one's will, and humility, and prodigality of the body; not in any honour to satisfying the flesh.
Men, love ye the wives, and be not embittered against them.
Neither hold to fictions and endless genealogies, which offer questions, rather than the arrangement of God in the faith:
For bodily exercise is profitable, to little: but devotion is profitable to all things, having promise of life now, and that about to be.
O Timothy, watch that which holds firm, turning aside from profane, idle talk, and oppositions of knowledge, bearing a false name:
By faith we perceive that the times were adjusted by the word of God, so that things seen have been born not of things brought to light.
I write to you, little children, for your sins are let go for his name. I write to you, fathers, for ye have known him from the beginning. I write to you, young men, for ye have conquered the evil. I write to you, young children, for ye have known the Father. read more. I wrote to you, fathers, for ye have known him from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, for ye are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and ye have conquered the evil.
Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they are of God: for many false prophets have come out into the world.
And every spirit which acknowledges not Jesus Christ having come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that of antichrist which ye have heard comes; and now is already in the world.
These I wrote to you believing in the name of the Son of God; ye might know that ye have etrnal life, and that ye might believe in the name of the Son of God.
But this hast thou, that thou dost hate the works of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate.
So also hast thou them holding the teaching of the Nicolaitanes, which I hate.
But I have a few things against thee, for thou sufferest the woman Jezebel, calling herself a prophetess, to teach and to lead my servants astray to commit fornication, and to eat things offered to idols.
And say to you, and to the rest among the Thyatirians, as many as have not this teaching, and who know not the burden of Satan, as they say; I will cast no other burden upon you.
And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; Thus says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
He conquering, will I give to him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered, and sat down with my Father on his throne.
Morish
An early system of philosophy professedly Christian. One of their theories was that the Lord was an ?on and not really a man. Apparently to refute this the apostle insists on Christ having come 'in flesh.' 1Jo 4:2-3; 2Jo 1:7. The same may be alluded to in Col 2:9, "in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily," in opposition to their mysticism. See GENEALOGIES.
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Only be strong and be greatly active, to watch to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded thee: thou shalt not turn aside from it to the right and to the left, so that thou shalt be wise in all things where thou shalt go.
For in him dwells all the completion of divinity bodily.
In this ye know the spirit of God: Every spirit which acknowledges Jesus Christ having come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit which acknowledges not Jesus Christ having come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that of antichrist which ye have heard comes; and now is already in the world.