Bible Cross References
Beware
Deuteronomy 6:12
make certain that you do not forget the LORD who rescued you from Egypt, where you were slaves.
Matthew 7:15
"Be on your guard against false prophets; they come to you looking like sheep on the outside, but on the inside they are really like wild wolves.
Matthew 10:17
Watch out, for there will be those who will arrest you and take you to court, and they will whip you in the synagogues.
Matthew 16:6
Jesus said to them, "Take care; be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."
Philippians 3:2
Watch out for those who do evil things, those dogs, those who insist on cutting the body.
2 Peter 3:17
But you, my friends, already know this. Be on your guard, then, so that you will not be led away by the errors of lawless people and fall from your safe position.
spoil
Colossians 2:18
Do not allow yourselves to be condemned by anyone who claims to be superior because of special visions and who insists on false humility and the worship of angels. For no reason at all, such people are all puffed up by their human way of thinking
Song of Songs 2:15
Catch the foxes, the little foxes, before they ruin our vineyard in bloom.
Jeremiah 29:8
I, the LORD, the God of Israel, warn you not to let yourselves be deceived by the prophets who live among you or by any others who claim they can predict the future. Do not pay any attention to their dreams.
Romans 16:17
I urge you, my friends: watch out for those who cause divisions and upset people's faith and go against the teaching which you have received. Keep away from them!
Ephesians 5:6
Do not let anyone deceive you with foolish words; it is because of these very things that God's anger will come upon those who do not obey him.
Hebrews 13:9
Do not let all kinds of strange teachings lead you from the right way. It is good to receive inner strength from God's grace, and not by obeying rules about foods; those who obey these rules have not been helped by them.
2 John 1:8
Be on your guard, then, so that you will not lose what we have worked for, but will receive your reward in full.
philosophy
Acts 17:18
Certain Epicurean and Stoic teachers also debated with him. Some of them asked, "What is this ignorant show-off trying to say?" Others answered, "He seems to be talking about foreign gods." They said this because Paul was preaching about Jesus and the resurrection.
Acts 17:32
When they heard Paul speak about a raising from death, some of them made fun of him, but others said, "We want to hear you speak about this again."
Romans 1:21
They know God, but they do not give him the honor that belongs to him, nor do they thank him. Instead, their thoughts have become complete nonsense, and their empty minds are filled with darkness.
Romans 1:22
They say they are wise, but they are fools;
1 Corinthians 1:19-23
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The scripture says, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and set aside the understanding of the scholars."
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So then, where does that leave the wise? or the scholars? or the skillful debaters of this world? God has shown that this world's wisdom is foolishness!
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For God in his wisdom made it impossible for people to know him by means of their own wisdom. Instead, by means of the so-called "foolish" message we preach, God decided to save those who believe.
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Jews want miracles for proof, and Greeks look for wisdom.
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As for us, we proclaim the crucified Christ, a message that is offensive to the Jews and nonsense to the Gentiles;
1 Corinthians 3:18
You should not fool yourself. If any of you think that you are wise by this world's standards, you should become a fool, in order to be really wise.
1 Corinthians 3:19
For what this world considers to be wisdom is nonsense in God's sight. As the scripture says, "God traps the wise in their cleverness";
1 Corinthians 15:35
Someone will ask, "How can the dead be raised to life? What kind of body will they have?"
1 Corinthians 15:36
You fool! When you plant a seed in the ground, it does not sprout to life unless it dies.
2 Corinthians 10:5
we pull down every proud obstacle that is raised against the knowledge of God; we take every thought captive and make it obey Christ.
1 Timothy 6:20
Timothy, keep safe what has been entrusted to your care. Avoid the profane talk and foolish arguments of what some people wrongly call "Knowledge."
2 Timothy 2:17
Such teaching is like an open sore that eats away the flesh. Two men who have taught such things are Hymenaeus and Philetus.
2 Timothy 2:18
They have left the way of truth and are upsetting the faith of some believers by saying that our resurrection has already taken place.
2 Timothy 3:13
and evil persons and impostors will keep on going from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves.
after the tradition
Colossians 2:22
All these refer to things which become useless once they are used; they are only human rules and teachings.
Matthew 15:2-9
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"Why is it that your disciples disobey the teaching handed down by our ancestors? They don't wash their hands in the proper way before they eat!"
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Jesus answered, "And why do you disobey God's command and follow your own teaching?
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For God said, 'Respect your father and your mother,' and 'If you curse your father or your mother, you are to be put to death.'
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But you teach that if people have something they could use to help their father or mother, but say, 'This belongs to God,'
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they do not need to honor their father. In this way you disregard God's command, in order to follow your own teaching.
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You hypocrites! How right Isaiah was when he prophesied about you!
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'These people, says God, honor me with their words, but their heart is really far away from me.
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It is no use for them to worship me, because they teach human rules as though they were my laws!' "
Mark 7:3-13
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(For the Pharisees, as well as the rest of the Jews, follow the teaching they received from their ancestors: they do not eat unless they wash their hands in the proper way;
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nor do they eat anything that comes from the market unless they wash it first. And they follow many other rules which they have received, such as the proper way to wash cups, pots, copper bowls, and beds. )
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So the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law asked Jesus, "Why is it that your disciples do not follow the teaching handed down by our ancestors, but instead eat with ritually unclean hands?"
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Jesus answered them, "How right Isaiah was when he prophesied about you! You are hypocrites, just as he wrote: 'These people, says God, honor me with their words, but their heart is really far away from me.
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It is no use for them to worship me, because they teach human rules as though they were my laws!'
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"You put aside God's command and obey human teachings."
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And Jesus continued, "You have a clever way of rejecting God's law in order to uphold your own teaching.
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For Moses commanded, 'Respect your father and your mother,' and, 'If you curse your father or your mother, you are to be put to death.'
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But you teach that if people have something they could use to help their father or mother, but say, 'This is Corban' (which means, it belongs to God),
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they are excused from helping their father or mother.
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In this way the teaching you pass on to others cancels out the word of God. And there are many other things like this that you do."
Galatians 1:14
I was ahead of most other Jews of my age in my practice of the Jewish religion, and was much more devoted to the traditions of our ancestors.
1 Peter 1:18
For you know what was paid to set you free from the worthless manner of life handed down by your ancestors. It was not something that can be destroyed, such as silver or gold;
the rudiments
Colossians 2:20
You have died with Christ and are set free from the ruling spirits of the universe. Why, then, do you live as though you belonged to this world? Why do you obey such rules as
Galatians 4:3
In the same way, we too were slaves of the ruling spirits of the universe before we reached spiritual maturity.
Galatians 4:9
But now that you know God---or, I should say, now that God knows you---how is it that you want to turn back to those weak and pitiful ruling spirits? Why do you want to become their slaves all over again?
Ephesians 2:2
At that time you followed the world's evil way; you obeyed the ruler of the spiritual powers in space, the spirit who now controls the people who disobey God.
after Christ
Ephesians 4:20
That was not what you learned about Christ!