Philippians 3:18

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

(Πολλοὶ γὰρ περιπατοῦσιν, οὓς πολλάκις ἔλεγον ὑμῖν, νῦν δὲ καὶ κλαίων λέγω, τοὺς ἐχθροὺς τοῦ σταυροῦ τοῦ Χριστοῦ:

Transliteration

(Polloi gar peripatousin, whom pollakis elegon to you, nyn de also klaiōn legō, the echthrous of the staurou of the Christou:

Grammar Details

*Polloi*: nominative, masculine, plural - many
*gar*: postpositive conjunction - for
*peripatousin*: indicative, present, active, 3rd person plural - they walk
*pollakis*: adverb - often/frequently
*elegon*: indicative, imperfect, active, 1st person singular - I was telling
*nyn*: adverb - now
*de*: postpositive particle - but/and
*klaiōn*: participle, present, active, nominative, masculine, singular - weeping
*legō*: indicative, present, active, 1st person singular - I tell
*echthrous*: accusative, masculine, plural - enemies
*staurou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of cross
*Christou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Christ

Word Meanings

*peripatousin*: walk/conduct themselves
*elegon*: was telling/used to tell
*klaiōn*: weeping/crying
*echthrous*: enemies/foes/opponents

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Referenced Verses

Jer 13:17 : 17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive.
Gal 1:7 : 7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
Gal 2:14 : 14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
Gal 6:12 : 12 As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.
Eph 4:17 : 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
Isa 8:11 : 11 For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
Jer 9:1 : 1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
2 Pet 2:10 : 10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
Ps 119:136 : 136 Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
Eph 5:5-6 : 5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Phil 1:4 : 4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,
Phil 1:15-16 : 15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will: 16 The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
1 Thess 4:6 : 6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
Gal 2:21 : 21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Gal 5:21 : 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Dan 4:37 : 37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
Luke 19:41 : 41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
Acts 20:19 : 19 Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:
Acts 20:30-31 : 30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. 31 Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
Rom 9:2 : 2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
1 Cor 1:18 : 18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
1 Cor 6:9 : 9 {G2228} Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
2 Cor 2:4 : 4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
2 Cor 11:13 : 13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
2 Cor 11:29 : 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
2 Thess 3:11 : 11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
Jude 1:13 : 13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

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