Colossians 2:8

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

Many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

He said, “Watch out that you don’t get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is at hand.’ Therefore don’t follow them.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness,

But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”

The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.

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;

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

For these things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

“Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!

When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don’t be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say;

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.

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,

As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning,

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

These are those who cause divisions and are sensual, not having the Spirit.

Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

And again, “The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless.”

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

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

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that plunder the vineyards; for our vineyards are in blossom.

For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Don’t let your prophets who are among you and your diviners deceive you. Don’t listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.

But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.

“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”

Jesus answered them, “Be careful that no one leads you astray.

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

Jesus, answering, began to tell them, “Be careful that no one leads you astray.

Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.”

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.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.

Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

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.

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

He answered them, “Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble,

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

But you didn’t learn Christ that way,

Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

These things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, humility, and severity to the body; but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service and an earthly sanctuary.

Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.

But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray.