Philippians 3:2

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

Watch out for the dogs, watch out for the evil workers, watch out for those who mutilate the flesh.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Βλέπετε τοὺς κύνας, βλέπετε τοὺς κακοὺς ἐργάτας, βλέπετε τὴν κατατομήν.

Transliteration

Blepete the kynas, blepete the kakous ergatas, blepete the katatomēn.

Grammar Details

• *blepete*: imperative, present, active, 2nd person plural - look at/beware of
• *kynas*: accusative, masculine, plural - dogs
• *kakous*: accusative, masculine, plural, adjective - evil/bad
• *ergatas*: accusative, masculine, plural - workers
• *katatomēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - mutilation/cutting

Word Meanings

• *blepete*: look at/watch out for/beware of
• *kynas*: dogs [derogatory term]
• *kakous*: evil/bad/wicked
• *ergatas*: workers/laborers
• *katatomēn*: mutilation/cutting [wordplay contrasting with *peritomē* (circumcision)]

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the mutilators.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

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

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  Beware of dogges beware of evyll workers. Beware of dissencion.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Bewarre off dogges, bewarre of euell workers, bewarre off discension:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Beware of dogges: beware of euil workers: beware of the concision.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Beware of dogges, beware of euyll workers, beware of concision.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  look to the dogs, look to the evil-workers, look to the concision;

• American Standard Version (1901)

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

• American Standard Version (1901)

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

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Be on the watch against dogs, against the workers of evil, against those of the circumcision:

• World English Bible (2000)

  Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!

Referenced Verses

• 2 Cor 11:13 : 13 For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
• Gal 5:15 : 15 But if you bite and devour one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.
• Ps 22:16 : 16 My strength is dried up like a broken piece of pottery, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death.
• Ps 22:20 : 20 But you, LORD, do not be far off; you are my strength; come quickly to help me.
• Isa 56:10-11 : 10 Israel's watchmen are blind; they all lack knowledge. They are all mute dogs; they cannot bark. They lie around dreaming, loving to sleep. 11 Yet the dogs are greedy; they never have enough. They are shepherds who lack understanding; all of them turn to their own way, each seeking his own gain from every quarter.
• 2 Tim 3:1-6 : 1 But know this: In the last days, difficult times will come. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, and unholy. 3 They will be unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, and hostile to what is good. 4 They will be traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. 5 They will have a form of godliness but deny its power. Stay away from such people. 6 They are the kind who creep into homes and capture weak-willed women who are burdened with sins and led astray by various desires.
• Titus 1:16 : 16 They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
• Rev 22:15 : 15 Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
• Rom 2:28 : 28 For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical.
• Rev 21:8 : 8 But as for the cowardly, the unbelieving, the detestable, murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.
• 2 Pet 2:18-20 : 18 For they utter arrogant, empty words and entice those who are barely escaping from others living in error, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh and by debauchery. 19 They promise freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption, for a person is a slave to whatever has mastered them. 20 For if, after escaping the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
• 2 Tim 4:3-4 : 3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound teaching, but according to their own desires, they will gather teachers for themselves to satisfy their itching ears. 4 They will turn away from hearing the truth and will turn aside to myths.
• 2 Tim 4:14-15 : 14 Alexander the coppersmith did me a great deal of harm; may the Lord repay him according to his deeds. 15 You too should be on guard against him, because he strongly opposed our message.
• Jude 1:4 : 4 For certain people have secretly slipped in among you—those who were written about long ago as being destined for this condemnation. They are ungodly, turning the grace of our God into a license for immorality and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
• Jude 1:10-13 : 10 These people speak abusively about what they do not understand, and what they do understand by instinct—like unreasoning animals—these are the very things that destroy them. 11 Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, rushed headlong for profit into Balaam’s error, and perished in Korah’s rebellion. 12 These are hidden reefs in your love feasts, feasting with you fearlessly, shepherding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted. 13 They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
• Matt 7:6 : 6 Do not give what is holy to dogs, nor cast your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to tear you to pieces.
• Matt 7:15 : 15 Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
• Matt 7:22-23 : 22 Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and cast out demons in Your name, and perform many miracles in Your name?' 23 Then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.'
• Phil 3:3 : 3 For we are the circumcision, the ones who worship by the Spirit of God, glory in Christ Jesus, and do not put confidence in the flesh.
• Phil 3:19 : 19 Their end is destruction, their god is their appetite, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.
• 1 Tim 1:19 : 19 holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have shipwrecked their faith.
• Gal 2:3-4 : 3 Yet not even Titus, who was with me, though he was Greek, was forced to be circumcised. 4 This arose because of false brothers who were secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus, so they might bring us into bondage.
• Gal 5:1-3 : 1 For freedom, Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. 2 Listen! I, Paul, say to you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you. 3 Again I declare to every man who allows himself to be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.
• Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight, but faith working through love does.
• Gal 5:13 : 13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
• Matt 24:10 : 10 'At that time many will turn away from the faith, betray, and hate each other.'
• Ps 119:115 : 115 Depart from me, evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.
• Prov 26:11 : 11 Like a dog returning to its vomit is a fool who repeats his folly.
• Rev 2:9 : 9 I know your works, your tribulation, and your poverty (though you are rich), and the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
• Rev 3:9 : 9 Look, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews but are not—they are liars—come and bow down before your feet, and they will know that I have loved you.
• 2 Pet 2:22 : 22 Of them the true proverb has come true: "A dog returns to its own vomit," and, "A sow that is washed returns to wallowing in the mud."