Colossians 2:18-19

Let No One Disqualify You

¹⁸ Let no one _m disqualify you, _n insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, _o going on in detail about visions, _{1 p} puffed up without reason by _q his sensuous mind, ¹⁹ and _r not _s holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.

1. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 9:24
   Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.
   
2. Cross References
   Colossians 2:23
   These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.
   
3. Cross References
   Ezekiel 13:7
   Have you not seen a false vision and uttered a lying divination, whenever you have said, 'Declares the Lord,' although I have not spoken?
   1 Timothy 1:7
   Desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions.
   
4. Cross References
   Ephesians 4:17
   Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.
   
5. Cross References
   Romans 8:7
   For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.
   
6. Cross References
   Ephesians 4:15 - 16
   Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ.
   
7. Cross References
   Revelation 2:13
   'I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is. Yet you hold fast my name, and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.
   Revelation 3:11
   I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown.