Colossians 2:23

James Moffatt - New Testament

they get the name of 'wisdom' with their self-imposed devotions, with their fasting, with their rigorous discipline of the body, but they are of no value, they simply pamper the flesh!

Cross References

1 Timothy 4:8

The training of the body is of small service, but religion is of service in all directions; it contains the promise of life both for the present and for the future.

Colossians 2:18

Let no one lay down rules for you as he pleases, with regard to fasting and the cult of angels, presuming on his visions and inflated by his sensuous notions,

Colossians 2:8

Beware of anyone getting hold of you by means of a theosophy which is specious make-believe, on the lines of human tradition, corresponding to the Elemental spirits of the world and not to Christ.

1 Timothy 4:3

men who prohibit marriage and insist on abstinence from foods which God created for believing men, who understand the Truth, to partake of with thanksgiving.

Colossians 2:22

referring to things that perish by being used? These rules are determined by human precepts and tenets;

Ephesians 5:29

For no one ever hates his flesh; no, he nourishes and cherishes it (just as Christ does the church

Romans 13:14

No, put on the character of the Lord Jesus Christ, and never think how to gratify the cravings of the flesh.