then be on guard that you not forget Jehovah who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

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 deliver you up to councils and scourge you in their synagogues.

Then Jesus said to them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.

Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision!

You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware also that you not be led away with the error of the wicked, and fall from your own steadfastness.

Let no one condemn you, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, being puffed up without cause by his fleshly mind,

Her Brothers: Catch us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines, for our vines have tender grapes.

For thus says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your fortune-tellers in your midst deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you dream.

Now I exhort you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and snares, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

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

Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.

Look to yourselves, that we do not lose those things we have produced, but that we may receive a full reward.

Then certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, What does this empty talker want to say? And others, He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign demons, because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.

And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some ridiculed, while others said, We will hear you again concerning this matter.

because, although they know God, they do not glorify Him as God, nor are thankful, but become vain in their reasonings, and their stupid hearts are darkened.

Professing to be wise, they become foolish,

For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the intelligent.

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who are believing.

but we preach Christ crucified, truly 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 foolish 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 own craftiness;

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

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

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

O Timothy, guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and empty babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge;

And their message will spread like cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus are of this sort,

who have strayed concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection has already come; and they overthrow the faith of some.

But evil men and pretenders will grow worse and worse, leading astray and being led astray.

which all concern things which perish with the using; according to the commandments and doctrines of men?

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

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

and he does not honor his father or mother. Thus you have voided the commandment of God by your tradition.

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

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

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

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

And He said to them, Full well you set aside the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

But you say, If a man says to his father or mother, Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban (that is, a gift),

making the Word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down. And many such things you do.

And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your vain way of life received by tradition from your fathers,

Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to decrees;

Even so we, when we were children, were enslaved under the elements of the world.

But now, knowing God, or rather being known by God, how is it that you turn again to the feeble and worthless principles, to which you desire again to be in bondage?

in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,

But you have not so learned Christ,