Colossians 2:4 Cross References - MNT

⁴ And this I say, lest any one should mislead you with enticing words.

⁴ "Take care," Jesus answered, "that no one mislead you;

²⁴ For false christs and false prophets will arise, and will work great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if it were possible, the very elect.

²² for false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show signs and wonders, to lead astray the very chosen, if they can.

³⁰ and that from among your own number, men will arise, perverting the truth, to draw away the disciples after them.

¹⁸ Turn away from them. For men of that stamp are not the slaves of Christ, but are slaves to their own appetites. By their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent. ¹⁹ I say this, for the tidings of your obedience have been told throughout the world. On your own behalf, then, I rejoice; but I want you to be wise unto the good, but innocents in evil.

⁴ My message and my preaching were not in the persuasive language of philosophy, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power;

³ But I fear lest, just as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, so your minds should be seduced from your single-mindedness and purity toward Christ.

¹¹ And why? Because I love you not? God knows I do. ¹² I am doing and will continue to do this in order to cut away the ground from under those who wish some cause for slander; and that the ground of their boasting may appear as does mine. ¹³ For such fellows are sham apostles of Christ.

⁴ Yet there were false brethren who had crept in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us again.

¹⁴ So we shall no longer be children, tossed up and down, and blown about by every wind of teaching, tricked by the craft of men in the snares of misleading error;

⁶ Let no man deceive you with empty arguments, for it is these vices that bring down the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience;

⁸ Take care lest any man drag you away captive by his philosophy which is a vain deceit, following the traditions of men and the world's crude notions, and not Christ.

¹⁸ Let no man at his will defraud you of your prize through his false humility and worship of the angels, taking his stand on the visions he has seen, and vainly puffed up by his material mind;

⁹ even he whose coming is according to the energy of Satan, in every power and sign and lying wonder, ¹⁰ and with all deceit of unrighteousness for those who are perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth for their salvation. ¹¹ For this reason God is sending on them an energy of delusion, that they should put faith in a falsehood;

¹ Now the Spirit distinctly declares that in latter days there will be some who will fall away from the faith, by listening to spirits of error, and to teachings of demons ² speaking lies in hypocrisy. These are men whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron,

¹⁶ but avoid profane babble; for people will go farther and farther in impiety,

¹³ But wicked men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving others, and being themselves deceived.

¹⁰ For there are many individuals who are unruly, empty talkers and deceivers, particularly those of the circumcision, whose mouths must be stopped; ¹¹ for they upset whole households and, for filthy lucre's sake, teach what they ought not to teach.

¹ Therefore put away all malice, all deceit, insincerity, jealousy, and slander of every sort. ² Like new-born babes long for the pure spiritual milk to make you grow up into salvation; ³ since you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

¹⁸ My children, this is the last hour, and as you have heard that an antichrist was coming, and now many antichrists are already risen, whence we may know that it is the last hour.

²⁶ I have written this to you concerning those who would lead you astray.

¹ Do not believe every spirit, beloved, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; for many false prophets are gone out into the world.

⁷ I say this because many deceivers are gone forth into the world, those who deny the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.

⁹ Now the great dragon was thrown down—that old Serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

⁸ and each one whose name has not been written in the Lamb's book of life, the Lamb who has been slain from the foundation of the world. All who dwell on the earth shall worship him.

³ and flung him into the bottomless pit, and shut and sealed it over him, so that he should seduce the nations no more, until the thousand years were completed. After that it is necessary to loose him for a little while.

⁸ and will go forth to seduce the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to marshal them for war—their number is like the sands of the sea.