Jeremiah 29:8
Matthew 15:2
2“Why do your disciples disregard the tradition of the elders? For they don't wash their hands when they eat.” ▼▼Lit. eat bread
Mark 7:5; Col 2:8 Romans 16:17
17Final WarningNow I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and sinful enticements in opposition to the teaching you have learned. Stay away from them!Acts 15:1, 5, 24; Acts 15:1, 5, 24, 1Cor 5:9, 11; Acts 15:1, 5, 24, 1Cor 5:9, 11, 2Thes 3:6, 14; 1Tim 6:3; 2Tim 3:5; Titus 3:10; 2John 1:10Galatians 1:14
14I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries, because I was far more zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.Jer 9:14; Matt 15:2; Mark 7:5; Acts 22:3; 26:9; Phil 3:6Ephesians 5:6
6Living in the LightDo not let anyone deceive you with meaningless words, for it is because of these things that God's wrath comes on those who are disobedient. ▼▼Lit. the sons of disobedience
Jer 29:8; Matt 24:4; Rom 1:18; Eph 2:2; Col 2:4, 8, 18; 2Thes 2:3 Colossians 1:22
22he has now reconciled by the death of his physical body so that he might present you holy, blameless, and without fault before him.Luke 1:75; Eph 1:4; 2:15-16; 5:27; 1Thes 4:7; Titus 2:14; Jude 1:24Colossians 2:18
18Let no one who delights in humility and the worship of angels cheat you out of the prize by boasting about what he has seen. ▼▼Other mss. read what he has not seen
Such a person is puffed up without cause by his carnal mind.Ezek 13:3; Col 2:4; 1Tim 1:7 Colossians 2:20
20The New Life in ChristIf you have died with Christ to the basic principles of the world, ▼▼Or the elemental spirits of the universe
why are you submitting to its decrees as though you still lived in the world?Rom 6:3, 5; Gal 2:19; Eph 2:15; Col 2:8 Hebrews 13:9
9Stop being ▼▼Or Do not be
carried away by all kinds of unusual teachings, for it is good that the heart be strengthened by grace, not by food laws ▼▼Lit. by foods
that have never helped those who follow them.Rom 14:17; Eph 4:14; 5:6; Col 2:4, 8, 16; 1Tim 4:3; 1John 4:1
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