Colossians 2:22

Bible in Basic English (1941)

(Rules which are all to come to an end with their use) after the orders and teaching of men?

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 29:13 : 13 And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;
  • Titus 1:14 : 14 Giving no attention to the fictions of the Jews and the rules of men who have no true knowledge.
  • 1 Cor 6:13 : 13 Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will put an end to them together. But the body is not for the desires of the flesh, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:
  • Mark 7:7-9 : 7 But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men. 8 For, turning away from the law of God, you keep the rules of men. 9 And he said to them, Truly you put on one side the law of God, so that you may keep the rules which have been handed down to you. 10 For Moses said, Give honour to your father and mother, and, He who says evil of father or mother, let him have the punishment of death: 11 But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God, 12 You no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother; 13 Making the word of God of no effect by your rule, which you have given: and a number of other such things you do.
  • Matt 15:3-9 : 3 And in answer he said to them, Why do you, yourselves, go against the word of God on account of the teaching which has been handed down to you? 4 For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death. 5 But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is given to God; 6 There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching. 7 You false ones, well did Isaiah say of you, 8 These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me. 9 But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.
  • Mark 7:18-19 : 18 And he said to them, Have even you so little wisdom? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside is not able to make him unclean, 19 Because it goes not into the heart but into the stomach, and goes out with the waste? He said this, making all food clean.
  • John 6:27 : 27 Let your work not be for the food which comes to an end, but for the food which goes on for eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for on him has God the Father put his mark.
  • Isa 29:18 : 18 And in that day those whose ears are stopped will be hearing the words of the book; and the eyes of the blind will see through the mist and the dark.
  • Dan 11:37 : 37 He will have no respect for the gods of his fathers or for the god desired by women; he will have no respect for any god: for he will put himself on high over all.
  • Rev 17:18 : 18 And the woman whom you saw is the great town, which is ruling over the kings of the earth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Col 2:23
    81%

    23 These things seem to have a sort of wisdom in self-ordered worship and making little of oneself, and being cruel to the body, not honouring it by giving it its natural use.

  • Col 2:20-21
    2 verses
    79%

    20 If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders

    21 Which say there may be no touching, tasting, or taking in your hands,

  • Mark 7:7-9
    3 verses
    77%

    7 But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.

    8 For, turning away from the law of God, you keep the rules of men.

    9 And he said to them, Truly you put on one side the law of God, so that you may keep the rules which have been handed down to you.

  • Matt 15:9
    76%

    9 But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.

  • Titus 1:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14 Giving no attention to the fictions of the Jews and the rules of men who have no true knowledge.

    15 To the clean in heart all things are clean: but to those who are unclean and without faith nothing is clean; they become unclean in mind and in thought.

  • Col 2:8
    71%

    8 Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:

  • Heb 13:9
    71%

    9 Do not be turned away by different strange teachings, because it is good for your hearts to be made strong by grace, and not by meats, which were of no profit to those who took so much trouble over them.

  • Matt 15:20
    70%

    20 These are the things which make a man unclean; but to take food with unwashed hands does not make a man unclean.

  • 2 Tim 2:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16 But take no part in wrong and foolish talk, for those who do so will go farther into evil,

    17 And their words will be like poisoned wounds in the flesh: such are Hymenaeus and Philetus;

  • Heb 9:10
    69%

    10 Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right.

  • 1 Tim 4:3
    69%

    3 Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.

  • Mark 7:13
    69%

    13 Making the word of God of no effect by your rule, which you have given: and a number of other such things you do.

  • 2 Tim 3:5
    69%

    5 Having a form of religion, but turning their backs on the power of it: go not with these.

  • Col 2:16-18
    3 verses
    69%

    16 For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths:

    17 For these are an image of the things which are to come; but the body is Christ's.

    18 Let no man take your reward from you by consciously making little of himself and giving worship to angels; having his thoughts fixed on the things which he has seen, being foolishly lifted up in his natural mind,

  • 1 Cor 7:31
    69%

    31 And for those who make use of the world, not to be using it fully; for this world's way of life will quickly come to an end.

  • 1 Tim 6:3
    69%

    3 If any man gives different teaching, not in agreement with the true words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the teaching which is in agreement with true religion,

  • 2 Pet 2:18
    68%

    18 For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;

  • 1 Pet 4:2
    68%

    2 So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God.

  • 1 Tim 1:6
    68%

    6 From which some have been turned away, giving themselves to foolish talking;

  • 2 Pet 2:12
    68%

    12 But these men, like beasts without reason, whose natural use is to be taken and put to death, crying out against things of which they have no knowledge, will undergo that same destruction which they are designing for others;

  • 2 Tim 2:21
    68%

    21 If a man makes himself clean from these, he will be a vessel for honour, made holy, ready for the master's use, ready for every good work.

  • 1 Tim 6:5
    68%

    5 Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.

  • Rom 14:20
    68%

    20 Do not let the work of God come to nothing on account of food. All things are certainly clean; but it is evil for that man who by taking food makes it hard for another.

  • Heb 6:2
    68%

    2 The teaching of baptisms, and of the putting on of hands, and of the future life of the dead, and of the judging on the last day.

  • 1 Cor 3:17
    68%

    17 If anyone makes the house of God unclean, God will put an end to him; for the house of God is holy, and you are his house.

  • Eph 4:22
    68%

    22 That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;

  • Matt 23:3-4
    2 verses
    68%

    3 All things, then, which they give you orders to do, these do and keep: but do not take their works as your example, for they say and do not.

    4 They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs; but they themselves will not put a finger to them.

  • Matt 15:3
    67%

    3 And in answer he said to them, Why do you, yourselves, go against the word of God on account of the teaching which has been handed down to you?

  • 2 Pet 2:2
    67%

    2 And a great number will go with them in their evil ways, through whom the true way will have a bad name.

  • Isa 29:13
    67%

    13 And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;

  • Titus 2:10
    67%

    10 Not taking what is not theirs, but giving clear signs of their good faith, in all things doing credit to the teaching of God our Saviour.

  • Lev 18:27
    67%

    27 (For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;)

  • Rom 1:23-24
    2 verses
    67%

    23 And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth.

    24 For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:

  • Mark 7:3
    67%

    3 Now the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not take food without washing their hands with care, keeping the old rule which has been handed down to them:

  • Rom 16:17
    67%

    17 Now, it is my desire, brothers, that you will take note of those who are causing division and trouble among you, quite against the teaching which was given to you: and keep away from them.

  • Jer 51:18
    67%

    18 They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.

  • Eph 4:14
    67%

    14 So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;

  • 2 Tim 2:14
    67%

    14 Put these things before them, giving them orders in the name of the Lord to keep themselves from fighting about words, which is of no profit, only causing error in their hearers.

  • Eph 4:19
    67%

    19 Who having no more power of feeling, have given themselves up to evil passions, to do all unclean things with overmuch desire.

  • Phil 3:19
    67%

    19 Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.

  • Mark 7:19
    66%

    19 Because it goes not into the heart but into the stomach, and goes out with the waste? He said this, making all food clean.