Colossians 2:22

World English Bible (2000)

(all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?

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  • Isa 29:13 : 13 The Lord said, "Because this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;
  • Titus 1:14 : 14 not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.
  • 1 Cor 6:13 : 13 "Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
  • Mark 7:7-9 : 7 But in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.' 8 "For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men--the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things." 9 He said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition. 10 For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.' 11 But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban, that is to say, given to God;"' 12 then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother, 13 making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this."
  • Matt 15:3-9 : 3 He answered them, "Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition? 4 For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.' 5 But you say, 'Whoever may tell his father or his mother, "Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God," 6 he shall not honor his father or mother.' You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition. 7 You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying, 8 'These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. 9 And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.'"
  • Mark 7:18-19 : 18 He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also? Don't you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can't defile him, 19 because it doesn't go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus purifying all foods?"
  • John 6:27 : 27 Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him."
  • Isa 29:18 : 18 In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
  • Dan 11:37 : 37 Neither shall he regard the gods of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god; for he shall magnify himself above all.
  • Rev 17:18 : 18 The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth."

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  • Col 2:20-21
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  • Mark 7:7-9
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    7 But in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'

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  • Matt 15:9
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    9 And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.'"

  • Titus 1:14-15
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    8 Be careful that you don't let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

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    9 Don't be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

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    20 These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn't defile the man."

  • 2 Tim 2:16-17
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    16 But shun empty chatter, for they will proceed further in ungodliness,

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    10 being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

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

  • Mark 7:13
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    13 making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this."

  • 2 Tim 3:5
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    5 holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

  • Col 2:16-18
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    16 Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

    17 which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's.

    18 Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

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    31 and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

  • 1 Tim 6:3
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    3 If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn't consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,

  • 2 Pet 2:18
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    18 For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

  • 1 Pet 4:2
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    2 that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

  • 1 Tim 1:6
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    6 from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned aside to vain talking;

  • 2 Pet 2:12
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    12 But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

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    21 If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master's use, prepared for every good work.

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    5 constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

  • Rom 14:20
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    20 Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

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    17 If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.

  • Eph 4:22
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    3 All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don't do their works; for they say, and don't do.

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  • Isa 29:13
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  • Titus 2:10
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    10 not stealing, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.

  • Lev 18:27
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    27 (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled);

  • Rom 1:23-24
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    23 and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.

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    3 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, don't eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.

  • Rom 16:17
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    17 Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

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    18 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

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    14 that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

  • 2 Tim 2:14
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    14 Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don't argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

  • Eph 4:19
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    19 who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

  • Phil 3:19
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    19 whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

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    19 because it doesn't go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus purifying all foods?"