Colossians 2:18

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Let no one disqualify you by delighting in false humility and the worship of angels, dwelling on things he has not seen, being puffed up without reason by his fleshly mind.

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  • Col 2:8 : 8 See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, based on human tradition and the elemental principles of the world rather than on Christ.
  • Col 2:23 : 23 These have an appearance of wisdom in self-made religion, false humility, and severe treatment of the body, but they have no value against the indulgence of the flesh.
  • 1 Tim 1:7 : 7 They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or what they so confidently affirm.
  • 1 Tim 4:1 : 1 Now the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and the teachings of demons.
  • Jas 3:14-16 : 14 But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and deny the truth. 15 This is not the wisdom that comes down from above but is earthly, unspiritual, and demonic. 16 For where there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there is disorder and every evil practice.
  • Jas 4:1-6 : 1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within your body parts? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. 4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit God caused to dwell in us longs jealously for us? 6 But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: 'God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.'
  • 2 Pet 2:14 : 14 They have eyes full of adultery, never ceasing from sin. They entice unstable souls and have hearts trained in greed. They are accursed children.
  • 1 John 2:26 : 26 I have written these things to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you.
  • 1 John 4:1-2 : 1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God.
  • 2 John 1:7-9 : 7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world—those who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist. 8 Watch yourselves, so that you do not lose what we have worked for, but may receive a full reward. 9 Anyone who goes beyond and does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have God. Whoever remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. 10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or greet him. 11 For the one who greets him shares in his wicked works.
  • Rev 3:11 : 11 I am coming quickly. Hold on to what you have, so that no one may take your crown.
  • Rev 12:9 : 9 The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
  • Rev 13:8 : 8 All those who live on the earth will worship it, everyone whose names have not been written in the Lamb's book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the foundation of the world.
  • Rev 13:14 : 14 It deceives those who dwell on the earth by the signs it was allowed to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who live on the earth to make an image to the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived.
  • Rev 19:10 : 10 Then I fell down at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, 'Don’t do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.'
  • Rev 22:8-9 : 8 I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when 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 that you don’t do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers the prophets and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God!"
  • Gen 3:13 : 13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, 'What is this you have done?' The woman said, 'The serpent deceived me, and I ate.'
  • Num 25:18 : 18 For they treated you as enemies with their deceit, which they used to lure you away to worship Baal of Peor, and because of Cozbi, the daughter of a Midianite leader, their kinswoman, who was killed on the day of the plague that struck because of Peor.’
  • Job 38:2 : 2 Who is this that darkens counsel with words without knowledge?
  • Ps 138:1-2 : 1 Of David. I will praise you with all my heart; I will sing your praises before the gods. 2 I will bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted your word above all your name.
  • Isa 57:9 : 9 You went to the king with oil and increased your perfumes; you sent your envoys far away; you even descended to the realm of the dead.
  • Ezek 13:3 : 3 This is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!
  • Dan 11:38 : 38 Instead, he will honor the god of fortresses in his place; a god unknown to his ancestors. He will honor it with gold, silver, precious stones, and costly gifts.
  • Matt 24:24 : 24 For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
  • Rom 1:25 : 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is forever praised. Amen.
  • Rom 8:6-8 : 6 The mindset of the flesh is death, but the mindset of the Spirit is life and peace. 7 Because the mindset of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
  • Rom 16:18 : 18 For such people are not serving our Lord Christ but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery, they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.
  • 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 For you are still worldly. Since there is jealousy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not worldly and living like mere humans?
  • 1 Cor 4:18 : 18 Some of you have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.
  • 1 Cor 8:1 : 1 Now concerning food sacrificed to idols: we know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
  • 1 Cor 8:5-6 : 5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth—just as there are many 'gods' and many 'lords'— 6 Yet for us there is only one God, the Father, from whom all things come and for whom we exist; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things were made and through whom we live.
  • 1 Cor 9:24 : 24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win it.
  • 1 Cor 13:4 : 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
  • 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I am afraid that, just as the serpent deceived Eve by its cunning, your minds may be led astray from sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
  • 2 Cor 12:20 : 20 For I fear that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be strife, jealousy, anger, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.
  • Gal 5:19-20 : 19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions,
  • Eph 5:6 : 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience.
  • Phil 3:14 : 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
  • Col 2:4 : 4 I say this so that no one may deceive you with persuasive arguments.

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    4I say this so that no one may deceive you with persuasive arguments.

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    6Brothers and sisters, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your sake, so that you may learn from us not to go beyond what is written. Then you will not be puffed up in being a follower of one of us over and against another.

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    18For they utter arrogant, empty words and entice those who are barely escaping from others living in error, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh and by debauchery.

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    17Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their minds.

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    18Let no one deceive themselves. If anyone among you thinks they are wise in this age, let them become foolish so that they may become wise.

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    29So that no one may boast before him.

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    3Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves.

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    10especially those who follow the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. They are bold and arrogant, and they are unafraid to slander celestial beings.

    11Yet even angels, who are greater in strength and power, do not bring a slanderous judgment against such beings before the Lord.

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    3But I am afraid that, just as the serpent deceived Eve by its cunning, your minds may be led astray from sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

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    8Watch yourselves, so that you do not lose what we have worked for, but may receive a full reward.

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    14Then we will no longer be infants, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness in the techniques of deceit.

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    9Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings. It is good for our hearts to be strengthened by God’s grace, not by eating ceremonial foods, which have not benefited those who have followed them.

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    2For if the message spoken through angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty,

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    26Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

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    3For if anyone thinks they are something when they are nothing, they deceive themselves.

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    14And though my physical condition was a trial to you, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus Himself.

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    23And they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, animals, and creeping things.

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    18For such people are not serving our Lord Christ but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery, they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

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    3In their greed, they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.

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    14Keep reminding them of these things, and solemnly warn them before God not to quarrel about words. Such arguments are useless and lead to the ruin of those who listen.

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    4This arose because of false brothers who were secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus, so they might bring us into bondage.

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    12Those who want to make a good impression in the flesh are the ones compelling you to be circumcised—only so that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.