Philippians 3:18

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.

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  • Jer 13:17 : 17 But if you will not pay attention to this warning, I will weep alone because of your arrogant pride. I will weep bitterly, and my eyes will overflow with tears because you, the LORD’s flock, will be carried into exile.”
  • Gal 1:7 : 7 not that there really is another gospel, but there are some who are disturbing you and wanting to distort the gospel of Christ.
  • Gal 2:14 : 14 But when I saw that they were not behaving consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all,“If you, although you are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
  • Gal 6:12 : 12 Those who want to make a good showing in external matters are trying to force you to be circumcised. They do so only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.
  • Eph 4:17 : 17 Live in Holiness So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
  • Isa 8:11 : 11 The Lord Encourages Isaiah Indeed this is what the LORD told me quite forcefully. He warned me not to act like these people:
  • Jer 9:1 : 1 (8:23) I wish that my head were a well full of water and my eyes were a fountain full of tears! If they were, I could cry day and night for those of my dear people who have been killed.
  • 2 Pet 2:10 : 10 especially those who indulge their fleshly desires and who despise authority. Brazen and insolent, they are not afraid to insult the glorious ones,
  • Ps 119:136 : 136 Tears stream down from my eyes, because people do not keep your law.
  • Eph 5:5-6 : 5 For you can be confident of this one thing: that no person who is immoral, impure, or greedy(such a person is an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Live in the Light Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.
  • Phil 1:4 : 4 I always pray with joy in my every prayer for all of you
  • Phil 1:15-16 : 15 Some, to be sure, are preaching Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from goodwill. 16 The latter do so from love because they know that I am placed here for the defense of the gospel.
  • 1 Thess 4:6 : 6 In this matter no one should violate the rights of his brother or take advantage of him, because the Lord is the avenger in all these cases, as we also told you earlier and warned you solemnly.
  • Gal 2:21 : 21 I do not set aside God’s grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!
  • Gal 5:21 : 21 envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!
  • Dan 4:37 : 37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all his deeds are right and his ways are just. He is able to bring down those who live in pride.
  • Luke 19:41 : 41 Jesus Weeps for Jerusalem under Judgment Now when Jesus approached and saw the city, he wept over it,
  • Acts 20:19 : 19 serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots of the Jews.
  • Acts 20:30-31 : 30 Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them. 31 Therefore be alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.
  • Rom 9:2 : 2 I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
  • 1 Cor 1:18 : 18 The Message of the Cross For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
  • 1 Cor 6:9 : 9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals,
  • 2 Cor 2:4 : 4 For out of great distress and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not to make you sad, but to let you know the love that I have especially for you.
  • 2 Cor 11:13 : 13 For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
  • 2 Cor 11:29 : 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn with indignation?
  • 2 Thess 3:11 : 11 For we hear that some among you are living an undisciplined life, not doing their own work but meddling in the work of others.
  • Jude 1:13 : 13 wild sea waves, spewing out the foam of their shame; wayward stars for whom the utter depths of eternal darkness have been reserved.

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