Colossians 2:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Col 2:18 : 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 Tim 4:8 : 8 For the training of the body is of profit for a little, but religion is of profit in every way, giving hope for the life which now is, and for that which is to come.
  • 1 Tim 4:3 : 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.
  • Col 2:22 : 22 (Rules which are all to come to an end with their use) after the orders and teaching of men?
  • Gen 3:5-6 : 5 For God sees that on the day when you take of its fruit, your eyes will be open, and you will be as gods, having knowledge of good and evil. 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.
  • Matt 23:27-28 : 27 A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you are like the resting-places of the dead, which are made white, and seem beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all unclean things. 28 Even so you seem to men to be full of righteousness, but inside you are all false and full of wrongdoing.
  • 2 Cor 11:13-15 : 13 For such men are false Apostles, workers of deceit, making themselves seem like Apostles of Christ. 14 And it is no wonder; for even Satan himself is able to take the form of an angel of light. 15 So it is no great thing if his servants make themselves seem to be servants of righteousness; whose end will be the reward of their works.
  • Eph 5:29 : 29 For no man ever had hate for his flesh; but he gives it food and takes care of it, even as Christ does for the church;
  • Col 2:8 : 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:

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

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

    18Let 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,

    19And not joined to the Head, from whom all the body, being given strength and kept together through its joins and bands, has its growth with the increase of God.

    20If 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

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

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

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

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    5For those who are living in the way of the flesh give their minds to the things of the flesh, but those who go in the way of the Spirit, to the things of the Spirit.

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    14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not give thought to the flesh to do its desires.

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    7But have nothing to do with unclean and foolish stories. Give yourself training in religion:

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

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    23And 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.

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    8Take 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:

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    19Whose 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.

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    23And to those parts of the body which seem to have less honour we give all the more honour; and to those parts of the body which are a cause of shame to us we give the greater respect;

    24But those parts of the body which are beautiful have no need of such care: and so the body has been joined together by God in such a way as to give more honour to those parts which had need of it;

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    17This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,

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    18For 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;

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

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

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    13Food 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:

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    16But I say, Go on in the Spirit, and you will not come under the rule of the evil desires of the flesh.

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    29So that no flesh might have glory before God.

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

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    3Do not let your ornaments be those of the body such as dressing of the hair, or putting on of jewels of gold or fair clothing;

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    27But I give blows to my body, and keep it under control, for fear that, after having given the good news to others, I myself might not have God's approval.

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    12Those who have the desire to seem important in the flesh, put force on you to undergo circumcision; only that they may not be attacked because of the cross of Christ.

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

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    4He has an over-high opinion of himself; being without knowledge, having only an unhealthy love of questionings and wars of words, from which come envy, fighting, cruel words, evil thoughts,

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    18For such people are not servants of the Lord Christ, but of their stomachs; and by their smooth and well-said words the hearts of those who have no knowledge of evil are tricked.

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    23Which is his body, the full measure of him in whom all things are made complete.

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    19These are the men who make divisions, natural men, not having the Spirit.

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    19I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.

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    12For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;

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    19Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses,