Colossians 2:8 Cross References - Moffatt

⁸ Beware of anyone getting hold of you by means of a theosophy which is specious make-believe, on the lines of human tradition, corresponding to the Elemental spirits of the world and not to Christ.

¹⁵ Beware of false prophets; they come to you with the garb of sheep but at heart they are ravenous wolves.

¹⁷ Beware of men, they will hand you over to sanhedrins and scourge you in their synagogues,

² "Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands when they take their food." ³ He replied, "And why do you transgress the command of God with your traditions? ⁴ God enjoined, Honour your father and mother, and, He who curses his father or mother is to suffer death. ⁵ But you say, whoever tells his father or mother, 'This money might have been at your service but it is dedicated to God,' ⁶ need not honour his father or mother. So you have repealed the law of God to suit your own tradition. ⁷ You hypocrites! Isaiah made a grand prophecy about you when he said, ⁸ This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me: ⁹ vain is their worship of me, for the doctrines they teach are but human precepts."

⁶ Jesus said to them, "See and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

³ (The Pharisees and all the Jews decline to eat till they wash their hands up to the wrist, in obedience to the tradition of the elders; ⁴ they decline to eat what comes from the market till they have washed it; and they have a number of other traditions to keep about washing cups and jugs and basins [and beds].) ⁵ Then the Pharisees and scribes put this question to him, "Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders? Why do they take their food with 'common' hands?" ⁶ He said to them, "Isaiah made a grand prophecy about you hypocrites — as it is written, This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me: ⁷ vain is their worship of me, for the doctrines they teach are but human precepts. ⁸ You drop what God commands and hold to human tradition. ⁹ Yes, forsooth," he added, "you set aside what God commands, so as to maintain your own tradition. ¹⁰ Thus, Moses said, Honour your father and mother, and, He who curses his father or mother is to suffer death. ¹¹ But you say that if a man tells his father or mother, 'This money might have been at your service, but it is Korban' (that is, dedicated to God), ¹² he is exempt, so you hold, from doing anything for his father or mother. ¹³ That is repealing the word of God in the interests of the tradition which you keep up. And you do many things like that."

¹⁸ Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also came across him. Some said, "Whatever does the fellow mean with his scraps of learning'?" Others said, "He looks like a herald of foreign deities" (this was because he preached 'Jesus' and 'the Resurrection').

³² But on hearing of a 'resurrection of dead men,' some sneered, while others said, "We will hear you again on that subject."

²¹ Though they knew God, they have not glorified him as God nor given thanks to him; they have turned to futile speculations till their ignorant minds grew dark. ²² They claimed to be wise, but they have become fools;

¹⁷ Brothers, I beg of you to keep your eye on those who stir up dissensions and put hindrances in your way, contrary to the doctrine which you have been taught. Avoid them.

¹⁹ It is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the sages, I will confound the insight of the wise. ²⁰ Sage, scribe, critic of this world, where are they all? Has not God stultified the wisdom of the world? ²¹ For when the world with all its wisdom failed to know God in his wisdom, God resolved to save believers by the 'sheer folly' of the Christian message. ²² Jews demand miracles and Greeks want wisdom, ²³ but our message is Christ the crucified — a stumbling-block to the Jews, 'sheer folly' to the Gentiles,

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself about this; whoever of you imagines he is wise with this world's wisdom must become a 'fool,' if he is really to be wise. ¹⁹ For God ranks this world's wisdom as 'sheer folly.' It is written, He seizes the wise in their craftiness,

³⁵ But, someone will ask, 'how do the dead rise? What kind of body have they when they come?' ³⁶ Foolish man! What you sow never comes to life unless it dies.

⁵ I demolish theories and any rampart thrown up to resist the knowledge of God, I take every project prisoner to make it obey Christ,

¹⁴ and how I outstripped many of my own age and race in my special ardour for the ancestral traditions of my house.

³ So with us. When we were under age, we lived under the thraldom of the Elemental spirits of the world;

⁹ but now that you know God — or rather, are known by God — how is it you are turning back again to the weakness and poverty of the Elemental spirits? Why do you want to be enslaved all over again by them?

² in which you moved as you followed the course of this world, under the sway of the prince of the air — the spirit which is at present active within those sons of disobedience

²⁰ That is not how you have understood the meaning of Christ

⁶ Let no one deceive you with specious arguments; these are the vices that bring down God's anger on the sons of disobedience.

² Beware of these dogs, these wicked workmen, the incision-party!

¹⁸ Let no one lay down rules for you as he pleases, with regard to fasting and the cult of angels, presuming on his visions and inflated by his sensuous notions,

²⁰ As you died with Christ to the Elemental spirits of the world, why live as if you still belonged to the world? Why submit to rules and regulations like

²² referring to things that perish by being used? These rules are determined by human precepts and tenets;

²⁰ O Timotheus, keep the securities of the faith intact: avoid the profane jargon and contradictions of what is falsely called 'Knowledge.'

¹⁷ and their doctrine spreads like a gangrene. So it is with Hymenaeus and Philetus; ¹⁸ they have failed in the Truth by arguing that the resurrection has taken place already, and they are undermining some people's faith.

¹³ Bad characters and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and deceived themselves;

⁹ Never let yourselves be carried away with a variety of novel doctrines; for the right thing is to have one's heart strengthened by grace, not by the eating of food — that has never been any use to those who have had recourse to it.

¹⁸ you know it was not by perishable silver or gold that you were ransomed from the futile traditions of your past,

¹⁷ Now, beloved, you are forewarned: mind you are not carried away by the error of the lawless and so lose your proper footing;

⁸ Watch yourselves; you must not lose what you have been working for, but gain a full reward.