Colossians 2:4 Cross References - Riverside

⁴ I say this that no one may deceive you by plausible arguments.

⁴ Jesus answered them, "Make sure that no one misleads you.

²⁴ For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will give great signs and wonders so as to mislead, if possible, even the chosen.

²² False Christs and false prophets will do signs and wonders to mislead if possible the chosen.

³⁰ And from among yourselves men will arise speaking perverse things to draw away the disciples after themselves.

¹⁸ For such persons are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own stomachs, and by their smooth and pleasing talk they mislead the hearts of the innocent. ¹⁹ For your obedience has come to the knowledge of all men. Therefore I rejoice over you, but I wish you to be wise regarding what is good, and simple in regard to what is evil.

⁴ and my speech and my proclamation were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but with spiritual and powerful proof,

³ But I fear that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts may be led away from sincerity and purity toward Christ.

¹¹ Why? Because I do not love you? God knows. ¹² But what I am doing I shall do so as to cut away all ground of attack from those who wish ground, and that in what they boast of they may be found just like us. ¹³ For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

⁴ though it was suggested on account of false brethren who had been brought in, who had crept in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.

¹⁴ Then we shall be no longer children tossed and borne about by every wind of teaching through the trickery of men and craftiness in the devices of deceit,

⁶ Let no one deceive you with empty words; for because of these things the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience.

⁸ Beware that no one carries you away captive by his philosophy and empty deceit according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary teachings of the world and not according to Christ.

¹⁸ Let no one as umpire defraud you of your prize, if he delights in excessive humility and ceremonial worship of the angels, searching into his own visions, emptily puffed up by his fleshly mind

⁹ For his coming will be when Satan is active in every sort of power and in false signs and wonders ¹⁰ and in every kind of wicked deception of those who are perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth so that they might be saved. ¹¹ For this reason God sends to them a deceptive influence so that they believe a lie,

¹ THE Spirit says distinctly that in later times some will desert from the faith, giving attention to deceiving spirits and teachings of demons, ² through the hypocrisy of men who teach falsely, branded in their own consciences,

¹⁶ But shun profane and empty talk. It will grow into greater impiety,

¹³ Wicked men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

¹⁰ For there are many insubordinate persons, foolish talkers and deceivers, especially those who are of the circumcision, ¹¹ who ought to be silenced, for they are upsetting whole house-holds, teaching what they should not, merely for the sake of base gain.

¹ THEN lay aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and every kind of slander, ² and, like new-born babes, long for the reasonable pure milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation, ³ if you have tasted that the Lord is kind.

¹⁸ Little children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that Antichrist is coming, even now many Antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the last hour.

²⁶ I am writing this to you in regard to those who are misleading you.

¹ BELOVED, do not trust every spirit, but test the spirits whether they are from God. For many false prophets have come out into the world.

⁷ For many deceivers have come out into the world and they do not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the Antichrist.

⁹ Then was hurled down the great Dragon, the ancient serpent who is called the Devil and Satan, who misleads the whole world — he was hurled to the earth and his angels were hurled with him.

⁸ All the inhabitants of the earth will worship him, all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the slain Iamb's Book of Life.

³ and flung him into the abyss and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he should not mislead the nations until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be loosed for a little while.

⁸ and will come out to mislead the nations that are at the four corners of the earth — Gog and Magog — and gather them to battle in number like the sand of the sea.