Hebrews 13:9

New English Translation

Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals, which have never benefited those who participated in them.

Cross References

Psalm 112:8

His resolve is firm; he will not succumb to fear before he looks in triumph on his enemies.

Matthew 24:24

For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

Matthew 24:4

Jesus answered them, “Watch out that no one misleads you.

Luke 5:38

Instead new wine must be poured into new wineskins.

Acts 20:30

Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them.

Acts 20:32

And now I entrust you to God and to the message of his grace. This message is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

Romans 14:17

For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Romans 14:2

One person believes in eating everything, but the weak person eats only vegetables.

Romans 14:6

The one who observes the day does it for the Lord. The one who eats, eats for the Lord because he gives thanks to God, and the one who abstains from eating abstains for the Lord, and he gives thanks to God.

1 Corinthians 6:13

“Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both.” The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

1 Corinthians 8:8

Now food will not bring us close to God. We are no worse if we do not eat and no better if we do.

2 Corinthians 1:21

But it is God who establishes us together with you in Christ and who anointed us,

Galatians 6:1

Brothers and sisters, if a person is discovered in some sin, you who are spiritual restore such a person in a spirit of gentleness. Pay close attention to yourselves, so that you are not tempted too.

Ephesians 4:14

So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.

Ephesians 5:6

Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.

Colossians 2:4

I say this so that no one will deceive you through arguments that sound reasonable.

2 Thessalonians 2:17

encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good thing you do or say.

2 Thessalonians 2:2

not to be easily shaken from your composure or disturbed by any kind of spirit or message or letter allegedly from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord is already here.

1 Timothy 6:20

O Timothy, protect what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the profane chatter and absurdities of so-called “knowledge.”

1 John 4:1

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Jude 1:12

These men are dangerous reefs at your love feasts, feasting without reverence, feeding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit – twice dead, uprooted;

Jude 1:3

Dear friends, although I have been eager to write to you about our common salvation, I now feel compelled instead to write to encourage you to contend earnestly for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints.