Colossians 2:22

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which all perish as they are used—based on human commands and teachings.

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  • Isa 29:13 : 13 The Lord says: 'These people come near to me with their mouths and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their reverence for me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.'
  • Titus 1:14 : 14 not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and human commandments that turn away from the truth.
  • 1 Cor 6:13 : 13 Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food, but God will destroy both one and the other. The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
  • Mark 7:7-9 : 7 They worship Me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. 8 You have abandoned the commandment of God and hold onto human traditions, including the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other similar things." 9 He also said to them, "How skillfully you set aside the commandment of God in order to uphold your own tradition. 10 For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death.' 11 But you say, 'If anyone says to his father or mother, "Whatever help you might have received from me is Corban"' (that is, devoted to God), 12 then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother. 13 You nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that."
  • Matt 15:3-9 : 3 Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition? 4 For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death.’ 5 But you say that if anyone declares to their father or mother, ‘What you would have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’ 6 they are not to honor their father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition. 7 You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you, saying, 8 ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. 9 They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’
  • Mark 7:18-19 : 18 And He said to them, "Are you also without understanding? Do you not realize that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him? 19 For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then it goes out into the latrine." (In saying this, He declared all foods clean.)
  • John 6:27 : 27 'Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him, God the Father has set his seal of approval.'
  • Isa 29:18 : 18 On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see.
  • Dan 11:37 : 37 He will show no regard for the gods of his ancestors, the desire of women, or any other god, for he will magnify himself above them all.
  • Rev 17:18 : 18 And the woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth.

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    20If you died with Christ to the elemental principles of the world, why, as though still living in the world, do you submit to its decrees?

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  • Mark 7:7-9
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    7They worship Me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.

    8You have abandoned the commandment of God and hold onto human traditions, including the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other similar things."

    9He also said to them, "How skillfully you set aside the commandment of God in order to uphold your own tradition.

  • Matt 15:9
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    9They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’

  • Titus 1:14-15
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    14not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and human commandments that turn away from the truth.

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  • Col 2:8
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    8See 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.

  • Heb 13:9
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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.

  • Matt 15:20
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    20These are the things that defile a person, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.”

  • 2 Tim 2:16-17
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    16Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly.

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  • 1 Tim 4:3
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    3They will forbid marriage and require abstinence from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

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    13You nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that."

  • 2 Tim 3:5
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    5They will have a form of godliness but deny its power. Stay away from such people.

  • Col 2:16-18
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    16Therefore, let no one judge you in regard to food and drink or regarding a festival, a new moon, or Sabbaths.

    17These are a shadow of the things to come, but the reality belongs to Christ.

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  • 1 Cor 7:31
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    31And those who use the things of this world, as if not engrossed in them. For this world in its present form is passing away.

  • 1 Tim 6:3
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    3If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness,

  • 2 Pet 2:18
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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.

  • 1 Pet 4:2
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    6Some have departed from these and turned aside to meaningless talk.

  • 2 Pet 2:12
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    21If anyone cleanses themselves from the latter, they will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.

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    5These lead to constant friction among people who are corrupted in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means to profit. Stay away from such people.

  • Rom 14:20
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    17If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

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  • Matt 15:3
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    3Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?

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    2Many will follow their destructive ways, and because of them, the way of truth will be blasphemed.

  • Isa 29:13
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    13The Lord says: 'These people come near to me with their mouths and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their reverence for me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.'

  • Titus 2:10
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    10They must not pilfer but must demonstrate complete faithfulness, so that they may make the teaching of God our Savior attractive in every way.

  • Lev 18:27
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    27For all these abominations were committed by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land was defiled.

  • Rom 1:23-24
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    23And they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, animals, and creeping things.

    24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.

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    3For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands carefully, holding to the tradition of the elders.

  • Rom 16:17
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    17Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them.

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    18They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment, they will perish.

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  • 2 Tim 2:14
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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.

  • Eph 4:19
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    19They have become callous and have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

  • Phil 3:19
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    19Their end is destruction, their god is their appetite, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.

  • Mark 7:19
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    19For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then it goes out into the latrine." (In saying this, He declared all foods clean.)