Let no one rule against you, willing in humility and worship of the angels, intruding into things which he has not seen, being puffed up by the mind of his flesh without cause,
But in his place he shall honor the god of strongholds, and he shall honor a god whom his fathers did not know, with gold and silver and with precious stones, and desirable things.
For they are oppressing ones to you, because of the cunning with which they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi the daughter of a ruler of Midian, their sister, who was struck in the day of the plague because of the matter of Peor.
For such ones do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth speech and fine speeches they deceive the hearts of the ones without guile.
And, brothers, I transferred these things to myself and Apollos because of you, that in us you may learn not to think above what is written, that you not be puffed up one against the other.
But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your thoughts should be corrupted from the simplicity which is due to Christ.
For I fear lest somehow, coming, I not find you as I wish, and I be found by you such as you do not wish; lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, angers, intrigues, evil speakings, slanders, puffings up, disturbances;
Which things indeed are a matter of having wisdom in self-imposed worship and humility, and severity in abuse of the body, but are not of any honor unto gratification of the flesh.
Watch that there will not be one abducting you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.
having eyes full of an adulteress, and never ceasing from sin; alluring unstable souls; having a heart being busied with covetousness; cursed children;
And the great dragon was cast out, the old serpent, the one being called the devil, even Satan; the one leading astray the whole inhabited earth, was cast into the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.
And it leads astray the ones dwelling on the earth, because of the signs which were given to it to do before the beast, saying to the ones dwelling on the earth to make an image to the beast who has the wound of the sword, and lived.
And all the ones dwelling in the earth will worship it, the ones of whom the names had not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb having been slaughtered from the foundation of the world.
And I fell before his feet to worship him, but he said to me, See that you do not do it! I am a fellow-slave of yours, and of your brothers, the ones having the testimony of Jesus. Worship God. For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.