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1 Timothy 6 20
Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, avoiding irreverent and empty speech and contradictions from what is falsely called knowledge.
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Ephesians 5:6
Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God’s wrath is coming on the disobedient because of these things.
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Colossians 2:20
If you died with Christ to the elements of this world, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations:
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Matthew 7:15
“ Be on your guard against false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravaging wolves.
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Galatians 4:9
But now, since you know God, or rather have become known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elements? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?
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1 Corinthians 3 18-1 Corinthians 3 19
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become a fool so that he can become wise.For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, since it is written, He catches the wise in their craftiness;
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Romans 1:21-22
For though they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became worthless, and their senseless hearts were darkened.Claiming to be wise, they became fools
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Galatians 4:3
In the same way we also, when we were children, were in slavery under the elements of the world.
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Colossians 2:18
Let no one condemn you by delighting in ascetic practices and the worship of angels, claiming access to a visionary realm. Such people are inflated by empty notions of their unspiritual mind.
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Hebrews 13:9
Don’t be led astray by various kinds of strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be established by grace and not by food regulations, since those who observe them have not benefited.
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Jeremiah 29:8
For this is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says:“ Don’t let your prophets who are among you and your diviners deceive you, and don’t listen to the dreams you elicit from them,
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2 Timothy 3 13
Evil people and impostors will become worse, deceiving and being deceived.
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Colossians 2:22
All these regulations refer to what is destined to perish by being used up; they are human commands and doctrines.
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2 Peter 3 17
Therefore, dear friends, since you know this in advance, be on your guard, so that you are not led away by the error of lawless people and fall from your own stable position.
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Romans 16:17
Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles contrary to the teaching that you learned. Avoid them,
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Matthew 15:2-9
“ Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat.”He answered them,“ Why do you break God’s commandment because of your tradition?For God said: Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death.But you say,‘ Whoever tells his father or mother,“ Whatever benefit you might have received from me is a gift committed to the temple,”he does not have to honor his father.’ In this way, you have nullified the word of God because of your tradition.Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said:This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines human commands.”
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Philippians 3:2
Watch out for the dogs, watch out for the evil workers, watch out for those who mutilate the flesh.
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1 Peter 1 18
For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold,
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Galatians 1:14
I advanced in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my people, because I was extremely zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.
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2 Timothy 2 17-2 Timothy 2 18
and their teaching will spread like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are among them.They have departed from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already taken place, and are ruining the faith of some.
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Deuteronomy 6:12
be careful not to forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.
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2John 1:8
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Matthew 10:17
Beware of them, because they will hand you over to local courts and flog you in their synagogues.
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2 Corinthians 10 5
and every proud thing that is raised up against the knowledge of God, and we take every thought captive to obey Christ.
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Song of Solomon 2 15
Catch the foxes for us— the little foxes that ruin the vineyards— for our vineyards are in bloom.
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1 Corinthians 1 19-1 Corinthians 1 23
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the intelligence of the intelligent.Where is the one who is wise? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made the world’s wisdom foolish?For since, in God’s wisdom, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased to save those who believe through the foolishness of what is preached.For the Jews ask for signs and the Greeks seek wisdom,but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles.
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1 Corinthians 15 35-1 Corinthians 15 36
But someone will ask,“ How are the dead raised? What kind of body will they have when they come?”You fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
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Matthew 16:6
Then Jesus told them,“ Watch out and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
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Ephesians 4:20
But that is not how you came to know Christ,
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Ephesians 2:2
in which you previously walked according to the ways of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit now working in the disobedient.
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Acts 17:18
Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also debated with him. Some said,“ What is this ignorant show-off trying to say?” Others replied,“ He seems to be a preacher of foreign deities”— because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.
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Mark 7:3-13
( For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing, keeping the tradition of the elders.When they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they have washed. And there are many other customs they have received and keep, like the washing of cups, pitchers, kettles, and dining couches.)So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him,“ Why don’t your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders, instead of eating bread with ceremonially unclean hands?”He answered them,“ Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written: This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines human commands.Abandoning the command of God, you hold on to human tradition.”He also said to them,“ You have a fine way of invalidating God’s command in order to set up your tradition!For Moses said: Honor your father and your mother; and Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death.But you say,‘ If anyone tells his father or mother: Whatever benefit you might have received from me is corban’”( that is, an offering devoted to God),“ you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother.You nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many other similar things.”
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Acts 17:32
When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some began to ridicule him, but others said,“ We’d like to hear from you again about this.”