Colossians 2:22

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These are all destined to perish with use, founded as they are on human commands and teachings.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 29:13 : 13 The Lord says,“These people say they are loyal to me; they say wonderful things about me, but they are not really loyal to me. Their worship consists of nothing but man-made ritual.
  • Titus 1:14 : 14 and not pay attention to Jewish myths and commands of people who reject the truth.
  • 1 Cor 6:13 : 13 “Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both.” The body is not 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 doctrine the commandments of men.’ 8 Having no regard for the command of God, you hold fast to human tradition.” 9 He also said to them,“You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up your tradition. 10 For Moses said,‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and,‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’ 11 But you say that if anyone tells his father or mother,‘Whatever help you would have received from me is corban’(that is, a gift for God), 12 then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother. 13 Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this.”
  • Matt 15:3-9 : 3 He answered them,“And why do you disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition? 4 For God said,‘Honor your father and mother’ and‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’ 5 But you say,‘If someone tells his father or mother,“Whatever help you would have received from me is given to God,” 6 he does not need to honor his father.’ You have nullified the word of God on account of your tradition. 7 Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said, 8 ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, 9 and they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”
  • Mark 7:18-19 : 18 He said to them,“Are you so foolish? Don’t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him? 19 For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.”(This means all foods are clean.)
  • John 6:27 : 27 Do not work for the food that disappears, but for the food that remains to eternal life– the food which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him.”
  • Isa 29:18 : 18 At that time the deaf will be able to hear words read from a scroll, and the eyes of the blind will be able to see through deep darkness.
  • Dan 11:37 : 37 He will not respect the gods of his fathers– not even the god loved by women. He will not respect any god; he will elevate himself above them all.
  • Rev 17:18 : 18 As for the woman you saw, she is the great city that has sovereignty over the kings of the earth.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Col 2:23
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    23Even though they have the appearance of wisdom with their self-imposed worship and humility achieved by an unsparing treatment of the body– a wisdom with no true value– they in reality result in fleshly indulgence.

  • Col 2:20-21
    2 verses
    79%

    20If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit to them as though you lived in the world?

    21“Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”

  • Mark 7:7-9
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    7They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine the commandments of men.’

    8Having no regard for the command of God, you hold fast to human tradition.”

    9He also said to them,“You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up your tradition.

  • Matt 15:9
    76%

    9and they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”

  • Titus 1:14-15
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    14and not pay attention to Jewish myths and commands of people who reject the truth.

    15All is pure to those who are pure. But to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted.

  • Col 2:8
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    8Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you through an empty, deceitful philosophy that is according to human traditions and the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

  • Heb 13:9
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    9Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals, which have never benefited those who participated in them.

  • Matt 15:20
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    20These are the things that defile a person; it is not eating with unwashed hands that defiles a person.”

  • 2 Tim 2:16-17
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    16But avoid profane chatter, because those occupied with it will stray further and further into ungodliness,

    17and their message will spread its infection like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are in this group.

  • Heb 9:10
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    10They served only for matters of food and drink and various ritual washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came.

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

  • Mark 7:13
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    13Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this.”

  • 2 Tim 3:5
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    5They will maintain the outward appearance of religion but will have repudiated its power. So avoid people like these.

  • Col 2:16-18
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    69%

    16Therefore do not let anyone judge you with respect to food or drink, or in the matter of a feast, new moon, or Sabbath days–

    17these are only the shadow of the things to come, but the reality is Christ!

    18Let no one who delights in false humility and the worship of angels pass judgment on you. That person goes on at great lengths about what he has supposedly seen, but he is puffed up with empty notions by his fleshly mind.

  • 1 Cor 7:31
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    31those who use the world as though they were not using it to the full. For the present shape of this world is passing away.

  • 1 Tim 6:3
    69%

    3If someone spreads false teachings and does not agree with sound words(that is, those of our Lord Jesus Christ) and with the teaching that accords with godliness,

  • 2 Pet 2:18
    68%

    18For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.

  • 1 Pet 4:2
    68%

    2in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires.

  • 1 Tim 1:6
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    6Some have strayed from these and turned away to empty discussion.

  • 2 Pet 2:12
    68%

    12But these men, like irrational animals– creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed– do not understand whom they are insulting, and consequently in their destruction they will be destroyed,

  • 2 Tim 2:21
    68%

    21So if someone cleanses himself of such behavior, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart, useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.

  • 1 Tim 6:5
    68%

    5and constant bickering by people corrupted in their minds and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a way of making a profit.

  • Rom 14:20
    68%

    20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean, it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat.

  • Heb 6:2
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    2teaching about ritual washings, laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

  • 1 Cor 3:17
    68%

    17If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.

  • Eph 4:22
    68%

    22You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires,

  • Matt 23:3-4
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    68%

    3Therefore pay attention to what they tell you and do it. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they teach.

    4They tie up heavy loads, hard to carry, and put them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing even to lift a finger to move them.

  • Matt 15:3
    67%

    3He answered them,“And why do you disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

  • 2 Pet 2:2
    67%

    2And many will follow their debauched lifestyles. Because of these false teachers, the way of truth will be slandered.

  • Isa 29:13
    67%

    13The Lord says,“These people say they are loyal to me; they say wonderful things about me, but they are not really loyal to me. Their worship consists of nothing but man-made ritual.

  • Titus 2:10
    67%

    10not pilfering, but showing all good faith, in order to bring credit to the teaching of God our Savior in everything.

  • Lev 18:27
    67%

    27for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become unclean.

  • Rom 1:23-24
    2 verses
    67%

    23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.

    24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.

  • Mark 7:3
    67%

    3(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they perform a ritual washing, holding fast to the tradition of the elders.

  • Rom 16:17
    67%

    17Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who create dissensions and obstacles contrary to the teaching that you learned. Avoid them!

  • Jer 51:18
    67%

    18They are worthless, objects to be ridiculed. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.

  • Eph 4:14
    67%

    14So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.

  • 2 Tim 2:14
    67%

    14Dealing with False Teachers Remind people of these things and solemnly charge them before the Lord not to wrangle over words. This is of no benefit; it just brings ruin on those who listen.

  • Eph 4:19
    67%

    19Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

  • Phil 3:19
    67%

    19Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things.

  • Mark 7:19
    66%

    19For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.”(This means all foods are clean.)