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Col. 2:18 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Letz no man θbeguile you of your reward κin a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intrudingb into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

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Rev. 3:11• ¹¹I am coming quickly: hold fast that which thou hast, that no one take thy crown. (Rev. 3:11)

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or, judge against you.

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being a voluntary in humility.

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Deut. 29:29• (Deut. 29:29)

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Job 38:2• (Job 38:2)

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Col. 2:4,8• ⁴And this I say that no one may beguile you by persuasive speech.
⁸See that there shall be no one that leadeth you a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ. (Col. 2:4,8)

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Gen. 3:13• (Gen. 3:13)

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Num. 25:18• (Num. 25:18)

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Matt. 24:24• ²⁴for there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall give great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect. (Matt. 24:24)

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Rom. 16:18• ¹⁸For such as they serve not our Lord [Jesus] Christ, but their own belly, and by kind speaking and fairness of speech deceive the hearts of the harmless. (Rom. 16:18)

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2 Cor. 11:3• ³But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craft, your thoughts should be corrupted from the simplicity that is toward Christ. (2 Cor. 11:3)

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Eph. 5:6• ⁶Let no one deceive you by vain words; for on account of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience. (Eph. 5:6)

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2 Peter 2:14• ¹⁴having eyes full of an adulteress and without cessation from sin; setting baits for unstable souls; having a heart practiced in covetousness, children of curse; (2 Peter 2:14)

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1 John 2:26• ²⁶These things I wrote to you concerning those that lead you astray. (1 John 2:26)

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1 John 4:1‑2• ¹Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, if they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
²Herein ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesseth Jesus Christ come in flesh is of God; (1 John 4:1‑2)

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2 John 7‑11• ⁷Because many misleaders went forth into the world, they that confess not Jesus Christ coming in flesh. This is the misleader and the antichrist.
⁸Look to yourselves, that we may not lose what we wrought but receive full reward.
⁹Every one that goeth onward and abideth not in the doctrine of the Christ hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine, he hath both the Father and the Son.
¹⁰If Anyone cometh to you and bringeth not this doctrine, receive him not at home and greet him not;
¹¹for he that greeteth him partaketh in his wicked works. (2 John 7‑11)

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Rev. 3:11• ¹¹I am coming quickly: hold fast that which thou hast, that no one take thy crown. (Rev. 3:11)

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Rev. 12:9• ⁹And the great dragon was cast {i}out{/i}, the ancient serpent, that is called {i}the{/i} Devil and Satan, that deceiveth the whole habitable {i}world{/i}: he was cast into the earth, and his angels were cast with him. (Rev. 12:9)

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Rev. 13:8,14• ⁸And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him, of whom the name is not written in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain, from {i}the{/i} world's foundation.
¹⁴and he deceiveth those that dwell on the earth because of the signs which it was given him to do before the beast, saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, who hath the wound of the sword and lived. (Rev. 13:8,14)

beguile you.

or, judge against you.

Col. 2:16• ¹⁶Let none therefore judge you in eating and in drinking, or in respect of feast or new moon or Sabbaths, (Col. 2:16)

in a voluntary humility.

Gr. being a voluntary in humility.

Col. 2:23• ²³which have a reputation indeed of wisdom in will-worship, and humility, and unsparingness of [the] body, not in any honour to satisfying of the flesh. (Col. 2:23)

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Isa. 57:9• (Isa. 57:9)

worshipping.

Dan. 11:38• (Dan. 11:38)

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Dan. 11• (Dan. 11)

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Rom. 1:25• ²⁵which exchanged the truth of God for falsehood, and served and reverenced the creature rather than the Creator who is blessed forever, Amen. (Rom. 1:25)

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1 Cor. 8:5‑6• ⁵For even if there are [so-]called gods whether in heaven, or on earth, as there are gods many and lords many;
⁶yet to us [there is] one God the Father, of whom [are] all things, and we unto him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom [are] all things, and we by him. (1 Cor. 8:5‑6)

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1 Tim. 4:1• ¹But the Spirit saith expressly that in latter times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons, (1 Tim. 4:1)

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1 Tim. 4• (1 Tim. 4)

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Rev. 19:10• ¹⁰And I fell before his feet to worship him. And he saith to me, See {i}thou do it{/i} not: I am fellow-servant of thee and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God. For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. (Rev. 19:10)

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Rev. 22:8‑9• ⁸And I John {i}was{/i} he that heard and saw these things. And when I heard and [when I] saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel that showed me these things.
⁹And he saith to me, See {i}thou do it{/i} not: I am fellow-servant of thee and of thy brethren the prophets and of those that keep the words of this book: worship God. (Rev. 22:8‑9)

intruding.

Deut. 29:29• (Deut. 29:29)

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Job 38:2• (Job 38:2)

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Psa. 138:1‑2• (Psa. 138:1‑2)

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Ezek. 13:3• (Ezek. 13:3)

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1 Tim. 1:7• ⁷desiring to be law-teachers, not understanding either what they say, or whereof they affirm. (1 Tim. 1:7)

vainly.

Col. 2:8• ⁸See that there shall be no one that leadeth you a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ. (Col. 2:8)

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1 Cor. 4:18• ¹⁸Now some were puffed up as though I were not coming unto you; (1 Cor. 4:18)

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1 Cor. 8:1• ¹But concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge; knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth. (1 Cor. 8:1)

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1 Cor. 13:4• ⁴Love is long-suffering, is kind; love is not emulous, is not vain-glorious, is not puffed up, (1 Cor. 13:4)

fleshly.

Rom. 8:6‑8• ⁶For the mind of the flesh [is] death, and the mind of the Spirit [is] life and peace;
⁷because the mind of the flesh [is] enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, for indeed it cannot;
⁸but those that are in flesh cannot please God. (Rom. 8:6‑8)

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1 Cor. 3:3• ³for ye are yet carnal. For whereas emulation and strife [are] among you, are ye not carnal and walk according to man? (1 Cor. 3:3)

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2 Cor. 12:20• ²⁰For I fear lest by any means on coming I find you not such as I wish, and I be found by you such as ye wish not; lest by any means [there be] strife, jealousy, wraths, feuds, slanderings, whisperings, swellings, confusions; (2 Cor. 12:20)

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Gal. 5:19‑20• ¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,
²⁰idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strifes, jealousies, bursts of passion, contentions, divisions, parties, (Gal. 5:19‑20)

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James 3:14‑16• ¹⁴But if ye have bitter emulation and faction in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.
¹⁵This wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, natural, demoniacal.
¹⁶For where envying and faction [are], there disorder [is] and every bad deed. (James 3:14‑16)

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James 4:1‑6• ¹Whence [are] wars and whence fightings among you? [Are they] not hence, from your pleasures that combat in your members?
²Ye lust and have not; ye kill and are jealous, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask not;
³ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures.
⁴Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore shall be minded to be friend of the world is constituted enemy of God.
⁵Or think ye that the scripture saith in vain? Doth the Spirit that took his dwelling in us long unto envy?
⁶But he giveth more grace; wherefore he saith, God setteth himself against haughty [men], but giveth grace to lowly. (James 4:1‑6)

• It looked like humility, thus to bring themselves into relation with angels, as superior and exalted beings who might serve as mediators. But there were two faults of immense importance in this apparent humility. First, it really was thorough pride-this pretension to penetrate into the secrets of heaven of which they were ignorant. What did they know of any position held by angels, which would make them the objects of such homage? It was pretending to mount up into heaven for and by themselves and to measure their relations with God’s creatures without Christ, and at their own will to connect themselves with them. Second, it was to deny their union with Christ. (“Colossians 2” by J.N. Darby)

• {Gnostic philosophy} Although this word has the appearance of learning and of not being scriptural, this is not the case. Science, falsely so called, of which the Apostle speaks elsewhere {1Tim. 6:20}, is in Greek “gnosis,” whence this presumptuous and corrupting philosophy was called “Gnosticism” and its votaries “Gnostics”....its principles are frequently found in the New Testament, brought forward by the apostles in order to combat them. The Jews had largely fallen into the notion of a mediatorial work of angels, though not in the form exactly of Gnostic philosophy. (“Colossians 2” by J.N. Darby)

• What Paul was particularly addressing in these verses was the pretention of having higher spiritual knowledge above what the apostles had delivered to the saints. Since all of the truth had already been revealed in the disclosure of the Mystery (vs. 3), the claims of these teachers were bogus. (“Hindrances to Carrying Out the Truth of the Mystery: Colossians 2:4-19” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Let no one fraudulently deprive you of your prize, doing his own will in humility and worship of angels, entering into things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

W. Kelly Translation

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Let no one defraud you of your prize, doing his will in humility and worship of the angels, intruding into things which he hath nota seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

WK Translation Notes

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Some of the best authorities omit the negative but in my judgment mistakenly. The sphere of angels was invisible, and the saint is not to pry there but believe in what God reveals. Dropping the negative would thus express the pretension of the mystics whom the apostle is exposing.