Colossians 2:4

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

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  • 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.
  • Rom 16:18-19 : 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. 19 Your obedience has been reported to all. Therefore, I rejoice about you. But I want you to be wise about what is good and innocent about what is evil.
  • 1 Cor 2:4 : 4 My message and my preaching were not based on persuasive words of human wisdom but on a demonstration of the Spirit and of power.
  • 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 11:11-13 : 11 Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do! 12 And I will keep on doing what I am doing, so that I can cut off the opportunity of those who want an opportunity to be regarded as our equals in the things they boast about. 13 For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
  • Gal 2:4 : 4 This 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.
  • Eph 4:14 : 14 Then 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.
  • Matt 24:4 : 4 Jesus answered them, 'Watch out that no one deceives you.'
  • 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.
  • Mark 13:22 : 22 For false messiahs and false prophets will rise and perform signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
  • Acts 20:30 : 30 Even from among your own group, men will rise up, speaking twisted things to draw away the disciples to follow them.
  • 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 2:18 : 18 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.
  • 2 Thess 2:9-9 : 9 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the workings of Satan, with all kinds of power, false signs, and wonders, 10 and with every kind of deceit targeting those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion, so that they will believe the lie,
  • 1 Tim 4:1-2 : 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. 2 They will speak lies with hypocrisy, and their consciences will be seared as with a hot iron.
  • 2 Tim 2:16 : 16 Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly.
  • 2 Tim 3:13 : 13 But wicked people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
  • Titus 1:10-11 : 10 For there are many who are rebellious, idle talkers, and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party. 11 They must be silenced because they are upsetting whole households by teaching things they should not for the sake of dishonest gain.
  • 1 Pet 2:1-3 : 1 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and every kind of slander. 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk so that by it you may grow in your salvation, 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.
  • 1 John 2:18 : 18 Dear children, it is the last hour. Just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour.
  • 1 John 2:26 : 26 I have written these things to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you.
  • 1 John 4:1 : 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 John 1:7 : 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.
  • 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 20:3 : 3 He threw him into the abyss, locked it, and sealed it over him, so that he could not deceive the nations anymore until the thousand years were completed. After that, he must be released for a short time.
  • Rev 20:8 : 8 He will go out to deceive the nations at the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—and gather them for battle. Their number is like the sand on the seashore.

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  • Col 2:8
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    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.

  • Eph 5:6
    77%

    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.

  • Col 2:18
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    18 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.

  • Eph 4:14
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    14 Then 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.

  • 2 Cor 11:3
    76%

    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.

  • 1 Cor 2:4-5
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    4 My message and my preaching were not based on persuasive words of human wisdom but on a demonstration of the Spirit and of power.

    5 So that your faith would not rest on human wisdom but on God's power.

  • 2 Pet 2:18
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    18 For 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 John 2:26
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    26 I have written these things to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you.

  • Rom 16:18
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    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.

  • Col 2:5
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    5 For even though I am absent in the body, I am present with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your orderly conduct and the firmness of your faith in Christ.

  • 1 Cor 3:18
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    18 Let 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.

  • 2 Thess 2:2-3
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    2 not to be quickly shaken in mind or disturbed, either by a spirit, a message, or a letter seeming to come from us, claiming that the day of the Lord has already come.

    3 Let no one deceive you in any way. That day will not come unless the rebellion takes place first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed—the son of destruction.

  • Col 2:2-3
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    2 I do this so that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and that they may have all the riches of full assurance of understanding, which leads to the full knowledge of God's mystery—Christ himself.

    3 In him are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

  • Eph 4:17
    73%

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

  • 2 Pet 3:17
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    17 Therefore, beloved, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of lawless people and fall from your own steadfastness.

  • 1 Thess 2:3
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    3 For our appeal does not come from error, impurity, or deception.

  • Matt 24:4
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    4 Jesus answered them, 'Watch out that no one deceives you.'

  • 2 Tim 2:14
    72%

    14 Keep 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.

  • Gal 5:8
    72%

    8 Such persuasion does not come from the one who calls you.

  • 2 Cor 12:16
    72%

    16 But be that as it may, I did not burden you. Rather, being crafty, I caught you with deceit.

  • Mark 13:5
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    5 Jesus began to say to them, 'Watch out that no one deceives you.'

  • 2 Pet 2:3
    71%

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

  • 2 Cor 9:4
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    4 Otherwise, if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we would be ashamed—not to mention you—in this confidence of boasting.

  • 1 Thess 2:5
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    5 For we never used words of flattery, as you know, nor did we put forth a pretext for greed—God is our witness.

  • Gal 2:4
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    4 This 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.

  • Titus 2:8
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    8 Let your speech be sound and beyond reproach, so that any opponent may be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

  • 2 Cor 4:2
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    2 Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not act deceitfully or distort the word of God, but by revealing the truth, we commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God.

  • Col 4:4-5
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    4 Pray that I may reveal it clearly, as I ought to speak.

    5 Conduct yourselves wisely toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunity.

  • 1 Thess 3:5
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    5 For this reason, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to know about your faith, lest somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor might have been in vain.

  • Gal 1:6-7
    2 verses
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    6 I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from the One who called you by the grace of Christ to a different gospel—

    7 not that there is another gospel, but there are some who are troubling you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ.

  • 2 Cor 10:9
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    9 I do not want to seem as though I am trying to frighten you with my letters.

  • 1 Tim 1:3-4
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    3 Just as I urged you to remain in Ephesus when I went to Macedonia, so that you might command certain people not to teach false doctrines,

    4 nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship of God that is by faith.

  • 1 Cor 15:33
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    33 Do not be deceived: 'Bad company corrupts good morals.'

  • Eph 4:22
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    22 You were taught to put off your former way of life, the old self, which is corrupted by deceitful desires,

  • 1 Tim 4:1
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    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.

  • 2 John 1:8
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    8 Watch yourselves, so that you do not lose what we have worked for, but may receive a full reward.

  • Jas 1:22
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    22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

  • Phil 1:10
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    10 So that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6 Brothers 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.

  • Phlm 1:8
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    8 For this reason, although I have great boldness in Christ to command you to do what is right,

  • Jude 1:17
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    17 But you, beloved, remember the words that were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Cor 2:11
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    11 So that we may not be outwitted by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

  • 2 Cor 8:20
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    20 We are taking this precaution so that no one will criticize us regarding this generous gift we are administering.

  • 2 Cor 2:17
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    17 For we are not like many, peddling the word of God for profit. Instead, with sincerity, as sent from God and in His presence, we speak in Christ.