Colossians 2:4 Cross References - Rotherham

⁴ This I say, in order that, no one, may be reasoning, you, aside with plausible discourse;

⁴ And, answering, Jesus said unto them––Be taking heed, lest anyone, deceive, you;

²⁴ For there will arise, false Christs, and false prophets,––and they will show great signs and wonders, so that, if possible, even the chosen, should be deceived:––

²² For there will arise, false Christs, and false prophets; and they will show signs and wonders, so as to deceive, if possible, the chosen.

³⁰ and, from among your own selves, will arise men speaking distorted things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.

¹⁸ For, they who are such, unto our Lord Christ are not doing service, but unto their own belly,––and, through their smooth and flattering speech, deceive the hearts of the innocent. ¹⁹ For, your obedience, unto all hath reached,––over you, therefore, I rejoice! But I wish you––to be wise, [indeed], as to that which is good, yet pure, as to that which is evil.

⁴ And, my discourse, and what I proclaimed, were not in suasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of Spirit and power:

³ But I fear lest, by any means, as, the serpent, completely deceived Eve, in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the singleness [and the chasteness] which are [due] unto the Christ.

¹¹ Wherefore? Because I love you not? God, knoweth! ¹² But, what I am doing, I also will do,––that I may cut off the occasion of them who are wishing an occasion, that, wherein they are boasting themselves, they may be found even as also, we. ¹³ For, such as these, are false apostles, deceitful workers, transfiguring themselves into apostles of Christ.

⁴ But, [this was] because of the false brethren secretly introduced,––who, indeed, came in secretly to spy out our freedom, which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:––

¹⁴ That we may, no longer, be infants––billow–tossed and shifted round with every wind of teaching,––in the craft of men, in knavery suited to the artifice of error;

⁶ Let no one be deceiving you with empty words; for, because of these things, is coming the anger of God upon the sons of obstinacy:

⁸ Be taking heed, lest there shall be anyone leading, you, off as a spoil, through means of their philosophy, and an empty deceit,––according to the instruction of men, according to the first principles of the world,––and not according to Christ:

¹⁸ Let, no one, against you, be arbitrating, however wishful,––in respect of lowliness of mind, and of a religious observance of the messengers: upon what things he hath seen, taking his stand, in vain, puffed up by his carnal mind,––

⁹ Whose, presence, [shall be] according to an inworking of Satan, with all manner of mighty work and signs and wonders of falsehood, ¹⁰ And with all manner of deceit of unrighteousness, in them who are destroying themselves, because, the love of the truth, they did not welcome, that they might be saved; –– ¹¹ And, for this cause, God sendeth them an inworking of error, to the end they should believe in the falsehood,––

¹ Howbeit, the Spirit, expressly saith––that, in later seasons, some will revolt from the faith, giving heed unto seducing spirits, and unto teachings of demons–– ² in hypocrisy, speaking falsehood, [of demons] cauterised in their own conscience,––

¹⁶ But, the profane pratings, shun; for, unto more ungodliness, will they force themselves on;

¹³ Whereas, wicked men and howling impostors, will force their way to the worse, deceiving and being deceived.

¹⁰ For there are many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially they of the circumcision,–– ¹¹ Whose mouths must needs be stopped, men who are upsetting whole houses, teaching the things which ought not [to be taught]––for the sake of base gain.

¹ Putting away, therefore, all vice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envyings and all detractions, ² As new–born babes, for the pure milk that is for the mind, eagerly crave, that, thereby, ye may grow unto salvation:–– ³ If ye have tasted for yourselves that, gracious, is the Lord,––

¹⁸ Little children! it is, the last hour; and, just as ye have heard that, an antichrist, is coming, even now, antichrists have become, many, whence we perceive that it is, the last hour:

²⁶ These things, have I written unto you, concerning them who would lead you astray.

¹ Beloved! not in every spirit, believe ye, but test the spirits, whether they are, of God; because, many false prophets, have gone out into the world.

⁷ Because, many deceivers, have gone out into the world, they who do not confess Jesus Christ coming in flesh: This, is the deceiver and the antichrist.

⁹ And the great dragon was cast out,––the ancient serpent, he that is called Adversary and the Satan, that deceiveth the whole habitable world,––he was cast to the earth, and his messengers, with him, were cast.

⁸ And all they who are dwelling upon the earth will do homage unto him,––[every one] whose name is not written in the scroll of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

³ and cast him into the abyss, and fastened and sealed [it] over him,––that he might not deceive the nations any more, until the thousand years, should be ended: after these, must he be loosed for a short time.

⁸ and will go forth to deceive the nations that are in the four corners of the earth, the Gog and Magog, to gather them together unto the battle––the number of whom, is as the sand of the sea.