Colossians 2:18 Cross References - MNT

¹⁸ Let no man at his will defraud you of your prize through his false humility and worship of the angels, taking his stand on the visions he has seen, and vainly puffed up by his material mind;

²⁴ For false christs and false prophets will arise, and will work great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if it were possible, the very elect.

²⁵ because they exchanged the truth of God for an untruth, and worshiped and served the creature, rather than the Creator who is blessed forever. Amen.

⁶ To be earthly minded means death; To be spiritually minded means life and peace. ⁷ For to be earthly minded is enmity against God; For such a mind is not subject to the Law of God, Nor can it be; ⁸ And they who are earthly minded cannot please God.

¹⁸ Turn away from them. For men of that stamp are not the slaves of Christ, but are slaves to their own appetites. By their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent.

³ You are not able even now, for you are still unspiritual. While there is among you jealousy and strife, are you not still unspiritual, and behaving like worldlings?

¹⁸ Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

¹ Now in regard to food which has been offered to idols, we are sure of course that "we all have knowledge." But knowledge puffs up, while love builds up.

⁵ For though there be so-called "gods," celestial of terrestrial, as indeed there are gods many and lords many, ⁶ yet for there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

²⁴ Do you not know that in a foot-race, though all run, only one receives the prize? So run that you may win.

⁴ Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love makes no parade, is not puffed up,

³ But I fear lest, just as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, so your minds should be seduced from your single-mindedness and purity toward Christ.

²⁰ For I dread that perhaps, when I come, I may not find you to be such as I wish, and that I may be found by you such as you do not wish; I dread lest there should be quarrels, jealousy, tempers, party spirit, slandering, gossip, arrogance, tumults;

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are manifest; such, for instance, as fornication, impurity, indecency, ²⁰ idol-worship, sorcery, quarrels, party-spirit, jealousy, passionate anger, intrigues, factions, sectarianism,

⁶ Let no man deceive you with empty arguments, for it is these vices that bring down the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience;

¹⁴ I am ever pressing on toward the goal, for the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus.

⁴ And this I say, lest any one should mislead you with enticing words.

⁸ Take care lest any man drag you away captive by his philosophy which is a vain deceit, following the traditions of men and the world's crude notions, and not Christ.

²³ For these precepts, although they have a show of wisdom with their self-imposed devotions and fastings and bodily austerities, are of no real value against the indulgence of the carnal appetites.

⁷ Although they desire to be teachers of the law, they understand neither the words they use nor the subjects they talk about.

¹ Now the Spirit distinctly declares that in latter days there will be some who will fall away from the faith, by listening to spirits of error, and to teachings of demons

¹⁴ But if you have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, do not be boasting of that, and be false to the truth. ¹⁵ Such wisdom is not that which is descending from on high, but is earthly, sensual, demonlike. ¹⁶ For wherever jealousy and faction exist, there is confusion and every evil deed.

¹ Where do the conflicts and quarrels that go on among you come from? Do they not come from your passions which are always making war among your bodily members? ² You continually crave and do not obtain; you are killing and coveting and cannot acquire; you are fighting and at war. You do not have, because you do not ask. ³ You continue to ask and do not receive, because you are asking with a wrong purpose, in order to spend it upon your pleasures. ⁴ You adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? Whoever, then, desires to be a friend of the world, makes himself and enemy of God. ⁵ Or do you suppose that it is in vain that the Scripture says, "The spirit which has its home in us yearns over us unto jealousy?" ⁶ But he gives more and more grace. therefore it is said, God ever resists the proud; but to the humble he gives grace continually.

¹⁴ They have eyes full of harlots, eyes that cannot stop sinning. They entice unsteady souls. Their heart is trained in greed. They are an accursed generation.

²⁶ I have written this to you concerning those who would lead you astray.

¹ Do not believe every spirit, beloved, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; for many false prophets are gone out into the world. ² By this you know the Spirit of God; every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is from God;

⁷ I say this because many deceivers are gone forth into the world, those who deny the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist. ⁸ Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what we have wrought, but that you receive a full reward. ⁹ Whoever is going ahead, and is not abiding in the teachings of Christ, does not possess God; but he who is abiding in the teaching possesses both the Father and the Son. ¹⁰ If any one come to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, nor give him any greeting. ¹¹ For the man who greets him shares in his wicked work.

¹¹ I am coming quickly. Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown.

⁹ Now the great dragon was thrown down—that old Serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

⁸ and each one whose name has not been written in the Lamb's book of life, the Lamb who has been slain from the foundation of the world. All who dwell on the earth shall worship him.

¹⁴ And he deceives those who dwell on the earth, because of the miracles, which he is permitted to perform in the sight of the beast. He tells those who live on the earth to make an image to the beast who had the sword-stroke, yet lived.

¹⁰ And I fell down at his feet to worship him, and he said to me. "See that you do it not. I am a fellow slave of yours and of your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus; for the testimony of Jesus is the vital breath of prophecy."

⁸ And I, John, am he who heard and saw these things. And after I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed them to me. ⁹ But he said to me. "See thou do it not. I am only a fellow slave with you and your brothers, the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this Book. "WORSHIP GOD!"