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King James Version

Colossians 2:4

And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Doctrines;   Minister, Christian;   Thompson Chain Reference - Evil;   Silence-Speech;   Words;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - John, gospel of;   Knowledge;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Colossians;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Colossians, Epistle to the;   Knowledge;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Colossians, Epistle to the;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Assurance;   Beguile;   Speech;   Word;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for April 7;  

Parallel Translations

New American Standard Bible (1995)
I say this so that no one will delude you with persuasive argument.
Legacy Standard Bible
I say this so that no one will delude you with persuasive argument.
Simplified Cowboy Version
I'm telling you this so you won't fall prey to wolves with silver tongues.
Bible in Basic English
I say this so that you may not be turned away by any deceit of words.
Darby Translation
And I say this to the end that no one may delude you by persuasive speech.
Christian Standard Bible®
I am saying this so that no one will deceive you with persuasive arguments.
World English Bible
Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And this I say, that no man may beguile you with inticing words.
Weymouth's New Testament
I say this to prevent your being misled by any one's plausible sophistry.
King James Version (1611)
And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with entising words.
Literal Translation
And I say this that no one may beguile you with persuasive words.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
This I saye, lest eny man shulde begyle you with entysinge wordes.
Mace New Testament (1729)
I mention this, lest any one should deceive you by specious pretences.
Amplified Bible
I say this so that no one will deceive you with persuasive [but thoroughly deceptive] arguments.
American Standard Version
This I say, that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.
Revised Standard Version
I say this in order that no one may delude you with beguiling speech.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
This I saye lest eny man shuld begyle you with entysinge wordes.
Update Bible Version
This I say, that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.
Webster's Bible Translation
And this I say, lest any man should deceive you with enticing words.
Young's Literal Translation
and this I say, that no one may beguile you in enticing words,
New Century Version
I say this so that no one can fool you by arguments that seem good, but are false.
New English Translation
I say this so that no one will deceive you through arguments that sound reasonable.
Berean Standard Bible
I say this so that no one will deceive you by smooth rhetoric.
Contemporary English Version
I tell you these things to keep you from being fooled by fancy talk.
Complete Jewish Bible
I say this so that no one will fool you with plausible but specious arguments.
English Standard Version
I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And this I say, lest any man shoulde beguile you with entising wordes:
George Lamsa Translation
And I say this, so that no man may beguile you with enticing words.
Hebrew Names Version
Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.
International Standard Version
I say this so that no one will mislead you with nice-sounding rhetoric.Romans 16:18; 2 Corinthians 11:13; Ephesians 4:14; 5:6; Colossians 2:8,18;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
But this I say, Let no man deceive you with the persuasion of words.
Murdock Translation
And this I say, lest any one should mislead you by the persuasiveness of words.
New King James Version
Now this I say lest anyone should deceive you with persuasive words.
New Living Translation
I am telling you this so no one will deceive you with well-crafted arguments.
New Life Bible
I tell you this so no one will try to change your mind with big sounding talk.
English Revised Version
This I say, that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.
New Revised Standard
I am saying this so that no one may deceive you with plausible arguments.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
This I say, in order that, no one, may be reasoning, you, aside with plausible discourse;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Now this I say, that no man may deceive you by loftiness of words.
Lexham English Bible
I say this in order that no one will deceive you with persuasive speech,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
This I say, lest any man shoulde begyle you with perswasion of wordes.
Easy-to-Read Version
I tell you this so that no one can fool you by telling you ideas that seem good, but are false.
New American Standard Bible
I say this so that no one will deceive you with persuasive arguments.
Good News Translation
I tell you, then, do not let anyone deceive you with false arguments, no matter how good they seem to be.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For this thing Y seie, that no man disseyue you in heiythe of wordis.

Contextual Overview

4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words. 5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ. 6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: 7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. 8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. 10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: 11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: 12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

lest: Colossians 2:8, Colossians 2:18, Matthew 24:4, Matthew 24:24, Mark 13:22, Acts 20:30, Romans 16:18, Romans 16:19, 2 Corinthians 11:3, 2 Corinthians 11:11-13, Galatians 2:4, Ephesians 4:14, Ephesians 5:6, 2 Thessalonians 2:9-11, 1 Timothy 4:1, 1 Timothy 4:2, 2 Timothy 2:16, 2 Timothy 3:13, Titus 1:10, Titus 1:11, 1 Peter 2:1-3, 1 John 2:18, 1 John 2:26, 1 John 4:1, 2 John 1:7, Revelation 12:9, Revelation 13:8, Revelation 20:3, Revelation 20:8

enticing: 1 Corinthians 2:4

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 13:6 - entice 1 Corinthians 15:50 - this 2 Corinthians 9:6 - I say 2 Corinthians 11:13 - false Galatians 2:5 - we Galatians 3:17 - this Ephesians 4:17 - I say Hebrews 13:9 - carried James 1:16 - Do

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Genesis 1:4
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Genesis 1:31
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Genesis 2:1
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
Genesis 2:2
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
Genesis 5:1
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
Genesis 10:1
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
Genesis 11:10
These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
Genesis 25:12
Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And this I say,.... That he had such a conflict for them, and had told them of his care and fear on their account, and had signified his great desire that they might arrive to a more large and certain knowledge of the mysteries of grace, and had asserted that all solid spiritual wisdom and knowledge were in Christ; all which he said, to show his affection for them; to observe unto them, that there was no need to seek for wisdom and knowledge elsewhere, since there was such a fulness of it in Christ, and the Gospel; and to put them upon their guard against false teachers:

lest any man should beguile you with enticing words; by which are meant, not apt and pertinent words, such as are suited to the minds of men, and proper to convey right ideas of divine truth, poignant expressions, sound speech, and strong reasonings; for such the apostle himself used, and yet not enticing words of men's wisdom; and which design mere words, great swelling words of vanity, which like bubbles look big, and make a great noise, but contain nothing but wind and emptiness; fair speeches, specious pretences, false colourings, fallacious reasonings, a show of probability, and appearance of science, falsely so called; whereby deceitful workers, such as the followers of Simon Magus and the Gnostics, used, whom the apostle had in view; beguiled unstable souls, and deceived the hearts of the simple: wherefore the apostle said the above things, showing that all true wisdom was in Christ, and all spiritual knowledge was in the pure and unmixed Gospel; which was not to be parted with for other things, which through art and management, and the cunning craftiness of men, might at first sight carry in them a show of probability, and appearance of truth. The gold, the silver, and precious stones of divine truths, which have been proved by the standard, are not to be given up for such as only look like them, being wrought up through the fallacy of men; who by a set of unmeaning words, paralogisms, and false reasonings, lie in wait to deceive.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And this I say - Respecting the character and sufficiency of the truth revealed in Christ.

Lest any man should beguile you - Deceive you, lead you away from the truth.

With enticing words - Artful words, smooth and plausible arguments; such as were employed by the Greek sophists and rhetoricians.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Colossians 2:4. Lest any man should beguile you — The word παραλογιζηται means to deceive by sophistry or subtle reasoning, in which all the conclusions appear to be fairly drawn from the premises, but the premises are either assumed without evidence, or false in themselves; but this not being easily discovered, the unthinking or unwary are carried away by the conclusions which are drawn from these premises. And this result is clearly intimated by the term πιθανολογια, enticing words, plausible conclusions or deductions from this mode of reasoning. The apostle seems to allude to the Gentile philosophers, who were notorious for this kind of argumentation. Plato and Socrates are not free from it.


 
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