Colossians 2:8

A Conservative Version

Take heed lest there will be any man taking you captive through the love of wisdom and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ.

Cross References

1 Timothy 6:20

O Timothy, keep the entrustment, avoiding the profane babblings and objections of the falsely-called knowledge,

Ephesians 5:6

Let no man deceive you by empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Matthew 7:15

But beware of FALSE prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are predatory wolves.

Galatians 4:9

but now knowing God, but rather being known by God, how is it ye turn again to the weak and destitute elements to which ye desire again to be in bondage anew?

Colossians 2:20

If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why do ye submit to rules, as though living in the world?

2 Timothy 3:13

But evil men and impostors will go forward to worse, leading astray and being led astray.

Jeremiah 29:8

For thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Let not your prophets who are in the midst of you, and your diviners, deceive you, nor hearken ye to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.

2 Peter 3:17

Ye therefore, beloved, knowing in advance, keep watch, lest, having accommodated to the error of the lawless, ye fall from your own steadfastness.

Hebrews 13:9

Be not carried away by various and foreign doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established with grace, not with foods by which those who walked were not benefited.

2 John 1:8

Watch yourselves, so that we may not lose what we have wrought, but may receive a full reward.

Galatians 4:3

And so when we were children, we were in bondage under the rudiments of the world.

2 Corinthians 10:5

casting down imaginations, and every high thing exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought captive into the obedience of the Christ,

Colossians 2:18

Let no man umpire against you insisting on self-mortification, and worship of the heavenly agents, intruding in things that he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

1 Peter 1:18

Knowing that ye were redeemed from your vain behavior inherited from fathers, not with perishable silver or gold,

Romans 16:17

Now I beseech you, brothers, watch out for those who make the divisions and the stumbling blocks, contrary to the doctrine that ye learned, and turn away from them.

Ephesians 4:20

But ye did not so learn the Christ,

Galatians 1:14

And I advanced in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my race, being a more extreme zealot of my paternal traditions.

Philippians 3:2

Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workmen, beware of the excision.

Deuteronomy 6:12

then beware lest thou forget LORD, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Matthew 16:6

And Jesus said to them, Watch and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Matthew 10:17

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

Colossians 2:22

(which are all things for consumption by use), according to the commandments and teachings of men?

Ephesians 2:2

in which ye once walked according to the era of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience.

Acts 17:18

And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, Whatever does this babbler want to say? But others, He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities, because he brought the good-news--Jesus and t

Acts 17:32

But when they heard the resurrection of the dead, of course they mocked, but others said, We will hear thee again about this.

Song of Solomon 2:15

Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vineyards. For our vineyards are in blossom.

1 Corinthians 8:9

But take heed lest somehow this privilege of yours becomes a stumbling-block to those who are weak.

1 Corinthians 10:12

Therefore let him who seems to stand take heed lest he fall.

Galatians 5:15

But if ye bite and devour each other, watch out that ye be not consumed by each other.

Colossians 2:23

Which having, are indeed a matter of wisdom in will-worship, and self-mortification, and austerity of the body--not in any value against indulgence of the flesh.

Hebrews 3:12

Watch, brothers, lest there will be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in withdrawing from the living God.