Colossians 2:23 Cross References - Worsley

²³ which things indeed have a pretence to wisdom in voluntary worship, and humiliation, and bodily penance, as having no regard to the satisfying of the flesh.

²⁷ Wo unto you scribes and pharisees, hypocrites; who are like whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful without, but within are full of the bones of the dead, and all manner of filthiness; ²⁸ so do ye likewise outwardly appear to men to be righteous, but within are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

¹³ For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transformed into apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ And no wonder: for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. ¹⁵ It is therefore no great thing, if his ministers also be transformed into ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

²⁹ For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord also doth the church:

⁸ Take heed least any one make a prey of you by philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ:

¹⁸ Let no one deprive you of your reward by an affected humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into what he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his carnal mind;

²² handle not," which all tend to corruption in the using,) according to the commandments and doctrines of men?

³ and enjoining abstinence from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by those that believe and know the truth.

⁸ For bodily exercise profiteth little, but piety is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come: