Colossians 2:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.

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  • Col 2:18 : 18 Let no one beguile you of your reward in a false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
  • 1 Tim 4:8 : 8 For bodily exercise profits little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
  • 1 Tim 4:3 : 3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
  • Col 2:22 : 22 Which all concern things which perish with the using, according to the commandments and doctrines of men?
  • Gen 3:5-6 : 5 For God knows that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be like gods, knowing good and evil. 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of the fruit and ate, and gave also to her husband with her; and he ate.
  • Matt 23:27-28 : 27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness. 28 Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
  • 2 Cor 11:13-15 : 13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder; for Satan himself transforms into an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform as ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
  • Eph 5:29 : 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church:
  • Col 2:8 : 8 Beware lest anyone spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the basic principles of the world, and not after Christ.

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    16Let no one therefore judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days;

    17Which are a shadow of things to come; but the substance is of Christ.

    18Let no one beguile you of your reward in a false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

    19And not holding to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God.

    20Therefore if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations,

    21"Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,"

    22Which all concern things which perish with the using, according to the commandments and doctrines of men?

  • 2 Tim 3:5
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    5Having a form of godliness but denying its power. From such turn away.

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    5For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh; but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

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    14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.

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    7But refuse profane and old wives' tales, and exercise yourself rather unto godliness.

    8For bodily exercise profits little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

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    2That he should no longer live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

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    23And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.

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    8Beware lest anyone spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the basic principles of the world, and not after Christ.

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    19Whose end is destruction, whose god is their stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their mind on earthly things.

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    23And those parts of the body which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow greater honor, and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty.

    24But our presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacked,

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    17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,

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    18For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through wantonness, those who have barely escaped from those who live in error.

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    7However, in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.

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    9But in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.

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    13Food for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

  • Gal 5:16
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    16I say then, walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

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    29That no flesh should glory in his presence.

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    9Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.

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    3Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

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    5Therefore, put to death your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

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    27But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest when I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.

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    12As many as desire to make a good appearance in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only to avoid suffering persecution for the cross of Christ.

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    19Who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

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    4He is proud, knowing nothing, but obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,

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    18For such persons do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own appetites; and by smooth talk and flattering words deceive the hearts of the innocent.

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    23Which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

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    19These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, having not the Spirit.

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    24And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

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    10And especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority. They are presumptuous, self-willed, and not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

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    8But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we better, nor if we do not eat are we worse.

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    19I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as servants of uncleanness and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as servants of righteousness for holiness.

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    12Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey its lusts.

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    19Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,