Colossians 2:8 Cross References - Living_Oracles

⁸ Beware lest any one make a prey of you through an empty and deceitful philosophy, -according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

¹⁵ Beware of false teachers, who come to you in the garb of sheep, while inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

¹⁷ But be upon your guard against these men; for they will deliver you to councils, and scourge you in their synagogues;

² Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders; for they was not their hands before meals. ³ Jesus answering, said to them, Why do you yourselves by your tradition, transgress the commandment of God? ⁴ For God has commanded, saying, "Honor father and mother"; and "Whosoever reviles father or mother, let him be punished with death." ⁵ But you affirm, If a man say to father or mother, I devote whatever of mine shall profit you, ⁶ he shall not afterward honor by his assistance, his father or his mother. Thus, by your tradition, you annul the commandment of God. ⁷ Hypocrites, well do you suit the character which Isaiah gave of you, saying, ⁸ "This people honor me with their lips. though their heart is estranged from me. ⁹ But in vain they worship me, while they teach institutions merely human."

⁶ Jesus said to them, Take head, and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

³⁵ But some one will say, How can the dead be raised up? and with what kind of body do they come? ³⁶ Simpleton! what you sow is not made alive, except it die.

³ (for the Pharisees, and indeed all the Jews who observed the tradition of the elders, eat not until they have washed their hands by pouring a little water upon them: ⁴ and if they be come from the market, by dipping them; and many other usages there are, which they have adopted, as immersions of cups and pots, and brazen vessels and beds:) ⁵ then the Pharisees and Scribes asked him, Whence comes it that your disciples observe not the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands? ⁶ He answering, said to them, O hypocrites! well do you suit the character, which Isaiah gave of you, when he said, This people honor me with their lips; but their heart is estranged from me. ⁷ In vain, however, they worship me, while they teach institutions merely human." ⁸ For laying aside the commandment of God, you retain the traditions of men, immersions of pots and cups, and many other similar practices. ⁹ You judge well, continued he, in annulling the commandment of God, to make room for your traditions. ¹⁰ For Moses has said, "Honor your father and mother" and "Whosoever reviles father or mother, shall be punished with death." ¹¹ But you maintain, if a man say to father or mother, "Be it corban (that is, devoted) whatever of mine shall profit you"; ¹² he must not thenceforth do anything for his father or mother; ¹³ thus invalidating the word of God, by the tradition which you have established. And in many other instances you act thus.

¹⁸ Then some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers opposed him. Others said, What would this babbler say? And others, he seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities; because he declared to them the good news concerning Jesus and the resurrection.

³² And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some made a jest of it, and others said, We will hear you again upon this subject.

²¹ Because, though they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, neither gave him thanks; but became foolish by their own reasonings, and their inconsiderate heart was darkened. ²² Professing to be wise men, they became fools:

¹⁷ Now, I beseech you, brethren, mark them who make separations and occasions of falling, contrary to the doctrine which you have learned; and avoid them.

¹⁹ Therefore, it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will set aside the knowledge of the prudent." ²⁰ Where is the wise man? where the scribe? where the disputers of this world? Has not God shown the wisdom of this world to be folly? ²¹ For, when, in the wisdom of God, the world, through wisdom, knew not God, it pleased God, through the foolishness of this proclamation, to save them who believe. ²² And though the Jews demand a sign, and the Greeks seek wisdom; ²³ yet we proclaim a crucified Christ: to the Jews, indeed, a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness:

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you think to be wise in this age, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. ¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it is written, "He entangled the wise in their own craftiness."

⁵ overturning reasonings, and every high thing raised up against the knowledge of God; and leading captive every thought to the obedience of Christ;

¹⁴ and made progress in Judaism above many of the same age with myself, in my own nation, being more exceedingly jealous of the traditions of my fathers.

³ So, also, we, whilst we were minors, were in bondage under the elements of the world.

⁹ But now, having acknowledged God, (or rather, being acknowledged by God,) why do you turn back again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which again, a second time, you incline to be in bondage?

² in which you formerly walked, according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air-of the spirit which now effectually works in the children of disobedience;

²⁰ But you have not so learned Christ;

⁶ Let no one deceive you with vain speeches; for on account of these things, the wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience.

² Beware of the snarlers, beware of evil workers, beware of the excision;

¹⁸ Let no one beguile you of your reward, -delighting in humility, and the worship of messengers, intruding into things which he has not seen, being without cause, puffed up by his own carnal mind:

²⁰ Now, if you have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as living in the world, you are subject to ordinances,

²² (which are all to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men;

²⁰ O Timothy, guard the things committed to you in trust, avoiding profane babblings, and oppositions of knowledge, falsely so named:

¹⁷ And their word will eat as a gangrene: for whom are Hymeneus and Philetus; ¹⁸ who, concerning the truth, have erred, affirming that the resurrection has already happened, and do subvert the faith of some.

¹³ but wicked men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

⁹ Be not tossed about with various and foreign doctrines; for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by meats, by which they have not profited, who have been taken up with them.

¹⁸ knowing that, not with corruptible things, as silver and gold, you were redeemed from your foolish behavior, delivered to you by your fathers;

¹⁷ Therefore, beloved, foreknowing these things, be on your guard; lest being also carried away by the deceit of the lawless, you fall from your own steadfastness.

⁸ Look to yourselves, that we may not lose the things which we have wrought, but may receive a full reward.