beware lest you forget the Lord your God that brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

"But beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

But beware of men, for they will hand you over to councils and they will flog you in their synagogues.

Then Jesus said to them, "Look out and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees."

Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the [false] circumcision!

You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on guard, lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being carried away by the error of the wicked;

Let no one rule against you, desiring [to do so] in [false] humility and in worship of the angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, in vain being puffed up by his carnal mind,

Take us the little foxes that spoil the vines: for our vines put forth tender grapes.

For thus says the Lord: Let not the false prophets that are among you persuade you, and let not your diviners persuade you, and hearken not to your dreams which you dream.

Now I urge you, brothers, to look out for those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

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

Do not be carried away with various and strange doctrines. For it is good [for] the heart to be established by grace, not by foods, by which those having walked were not profited.

Look to yourselves, lest we should lose those things for which we worked, but that we should receive a full reward.

And also some of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. And some were saying, "What does this seed-picker wish to say?" But others [said], "He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities," because he was preaching the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.

But when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some were scoffing, but others said, "We will hear you again concerning this."

Because, having known God, they did not glorify Him as God, or give thanks, but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.

Professing to be wise, they became fools,

For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the understanding of the prudent I will annul."

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, God was well pleased, through the foolishness of our preaching, to save those that believe.

but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness,

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness";

But someone will say, "How are the dead raised? And with what sort of body do they come?"

Fool, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies.

casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ,

O Timothy! Guard that which was committed to your trust, turning away from the profane and empty babblings and opposing views of what is falsely called "knowledge,"

And their word will spread like gangrene; of whom are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

who have strayed concerning the truth, asserting that the resurrection has already occurred; and they overturn the faith of some.

But evil men and impostors shall advance worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

which things are all for corruption with the using, according to the commands and teaching of men?

"Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands whenever they eat bread."

For God commanded, saying, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'He who curses father or mother, with death let him die.'

then by no means should he honor his father or mother.' Thus you have nullified the commandment of God on account of your tradition.

'These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and they honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far away from Me.

For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands with [their] fist, holding the tradition of the elders.

Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, "Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but they eat bread with unwashed hands?"

And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'

And He said to them, "Well do you set aside the commandment of God, so that you may keep your tradition.

But you say, 'If a man says to [his] father or to [his] mother, "Whatever you might be profited by me is Corban"--' (that is, a gift),

[thus] nullifying the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down. And many similar things you do."

And I was advancing in Judaism above many my own age, being far more zealous for the traditions of my forefathers.

knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your futile way of life handed down from your forefathers,

If you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you submit to regulations--

Even so we, when we were minors, were enslaved by the elements of the world.

But now, having known God, or rather, having been known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which once again you wish to be slaves?

in which you once walked according to the age of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit which is now working in the sons of disobedience,

But you did not thus learn Christ,