Philippians 3:18-19
3:18 For many live, about whom I have often told you, and now, with tears, I tell you that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ.
3:19 Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things.
Philippians 3:2
3:2 Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!
Philippians 3:1-6
True and False Righteousness
3:1 Finally, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! To write this again is no trouble to me, and it is a safeguard for you.
3:2 Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!
3:3 For we are the circumcision, the ones who worship by the Spirit of God, exult in Christ Jesus, and do not rely on human credentials
3:4 – though mine too are significant. If someone thinks he has good reasons to put confidence in human credentials, I have more:
3:5 I was circumcised on the eighth day, from the people of Israel and the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. I lived according to the law as a Pharisee.
3:6 In my zeal for God I persecuted the church. According to the righteousness stipulated in the law I was blameless.
Philippians 3:2
3:2 Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!
Philippians 2:1-3
Christian Unity and Christ’s Humility
2:1 Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort provided by love, any fellowship in the Spirit, any affection or mercy,
2:2 complete my joy and be of the same mind, by having the same love, being united in spirit, and having one purpose.
2:3 Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.
Philippians 2:12-22
Lights in the World
2:12 So then, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence but even more in my absence, continue working out your salvation with awe and reverence,
2:13 for the one bringing forth in you both the desire and the effort – for the sake of his good pleasure – is God.
2:14 Do everything without grumbling or arguing,
2:15 so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without blemish though you live in a crooked and perverse society, in which you shine as lights in the world
2:16 by holding on to the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.
2:17 But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice together with all of you.
2:18 And in the same way you also should be glad and rejoice together with me.
Models for Ministry
2:19 Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be encouraged by hearing news about you.
2:20 For there is no one here like him who will readily demonstrate his deep concern for you.
2:21 Others are busy with their own concerns, not those of Jesus Christ.
2:22 But you know his qualifications, that like a son working with his father, he served with me in advancing the gospel.
Jude 1:10-13
1:10 But these men do not understand the things they slander, and they are being destroyed by the very things that, like irrational animals, they instinctively comprehend.
1:11 Woe to them! For they have traveled down Cain’s path,
and because of greed
have abandoned themselves
to
Balaam’s error; hence,
they will certainly perish
in Korah’s rebellion.
1:12 These men are
dangerous reefs
at your love feasts,
feasting without reverence,
feeding only themselves.
They are
waterless
clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit
– twice dead,
uprooted;
1:13 wild sea waves,
spewing out the foam of
their shame;
wayward stars
for whom the utter depths of eternal darkness
have been reserved.