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18 Do not let anyone disqualify you, insisting on self-abasement and worship of angels, initiatory visions,[a] puffed up without cause by a human way of thinking,[b]

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  1. 2.18 Meaning of Gk uncertain
  2. 2.18 Gk by the mind of his flesh

18 Let no one defraud you of your prize [your freedom in Christ and your salvation] by insisting on mock humility and the worship of angels, going into detail about visions [he claims] he has seen [to justify his authority], puffed up [in conceit] by his unspiritual mind,

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18 Let no one disqualify you,[a](A) insisting on ascetic practices(B) and the worship of angels, claiming access to a visionary realm and inflated(C) without cause by his unspiritual[b] mind.

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  1. Colossians 2:18 Or no one cheat us out of your prize
  2. Colossians 2:18 Lit fleshly

18 Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has [a]not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

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  1. Colossians 2:18 NU omits not

10 Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers and sisters who hold the testimony of Jesus.[a] Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus[b] is the spirit of prophecy.”(A)

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  1. 19.10 Or to Jesus
  2. 19.10 Or to Jesus

10 Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he [stopped me and] said to me, “You must not do that; I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers and sisters who have and hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God [alone]. For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy [His life and teaching are the heart of prophecy].”(A)

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10 Then I fell at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “Don’t do that! I am a fellow slave with you and your brothers who have the testimony about[a] Jesus.(A) Worship God, because the testimony about Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”[b]

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  1. Revelation 19:10 Or to
  2. Revelation 19:10 Or the Spirit

10 And (A)I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, (B)“See that you do not do that! I am your (C)fellow servant, and of your brethren (D)who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the (E)testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

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Epilogue and Benediction

I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed them to me,

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I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things.

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I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. When I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who had shown them to me.

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Now I, John, [a]saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw, (A)I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things.

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  1. Revelation 22:8 NU, M am the one who heard and saw