the Week of Proper 20 / Ordinary 25
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Philippians 3:18
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For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ,
For many walk—of whom I often told you, and now tell you even crying—as enemies of the cross of Christ,
It breaks my heart that many cowboys only ride for themselves. In doing so, they make themselves enemies of the cross.
For there are those, of whom I have given you word before, and do so now with sorrow, who are haters of the cross of Christ;
(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:
For I have often told you, and now say again with tears, that many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,
(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction,
For there are many whom I have often described to you, and I now even with tears describe them, as being enemies to the Cross of Christ.
(For many walke, of whome I haue told you often, and now tell you euen weeping, that they are the enemies of the crosse of Christ:
For many walk as hostile to the cross of Christ, of whom I often told you, and now even weeping I say it,
For many walke (off whom I haue tolde you often, but now I tell you wepynge) eue enemies of the crosse of Christ,
for there are many that wander about, of whom I have frequently told you, and now repeat it with tears, that they are enemies to the cross of Christ:
For there are many, of whom I have often told you, and now tell you even with tears, who live as enemies of the cross of Christ [rejecting and opposing His way of salvation],
For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
For many walke (of whom I have tolde you often and now tell you wepynge) that they are ye enemyes of ye crosse of Christ
For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, [that they are] the enemies of the cross of Christ:
(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:
for many walk of whom many times I told you -- and now also weeping tell -- the enemies of the cross of the Christ!
Many people live like enemies of the cross of Christ. I have often told you about them, and it makes me cry to tell you about them now.
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.
For as I have often told you before, and now declare even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
I often warned you that many people are living as enemies of the cross of Christ. And now with tears in my eyes, I warn you again
For many — I have told you about them often before, and even now I say it with tears — live as enemies of the Messiah's execution-stake.
For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ.
For many walke, of whom I haue told you often, and nowe tell you weeping, that they are the enemies of the Crosse of Christ:
For there are many who live otherwise, of whom I have often told you, and now I tell you with tears that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ;
For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Messiah,
For I have often told you, and now tell you even with tears, that many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.Galatians 1:7; 2:21; 6:12; Philippians 1:15-16;">[xr]
For there are many who walk otherwise, of whom many times I have told you, but now weeping I tell you, they are adversaries of the cross of the Meshiha;
For there are many who walk otherwise; of whom I have often told you, and I now tell you, with weeping, that they are adversaries of the cross of the Messiah;
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:
For I have told you often before, and I say it again with tears in my eyes, that there are many whose conduct shows they are really enemies of the cross of Christ.
There are many whose lives show they hate the cross of Christ. I have told you this before. Now I tell you again with tears in my eyes.
For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
For many live as enemies of the cross of Christ; I have often told you of them, and now I tell you even with tears.
For, many, are walking - of whom I have often been telling you, and, now, even weeping, am telling, - the enemies of the cross of the Christ;
For many walk, of whom I have told you often (and now tell you weeping) that they are enemies of the cross of Christ:
For many live, of whom I spoke about to you many times, but now speak about even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,
For many walke, of whom I haue tolde you often, & nowe tel you wepyng, [that they are] the enemies of the crosse of Christe:
There are many who live like enemies of the cross of Christ. I have often told you about them. And it makes me cry to tell you about them now.
For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even as I weep, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ,
I have told you this many times before, and now I repeat it with tears: there are many whose lives make them enemies of Christ's death on the cross.
For many walken, whiche Y haue seid ofte to you, but now Y wepinge seie, the enemyes of Cristis cros,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
many: Isaiah 8:11, Daniel 4:37, Galatians 2:14, Ephesians 4:17, 2 Thessalonians 3:11, 2 Peter 2:10, Jude 1:13
I have: 1 Corinthians 6:9, Galatians 5:21, Ephesians 5:5, Ephesians 5:6, 1 Thessalonians 4:6
even: Philippians 1:4, Psalms 119:136, Jeremiah 9:1, Jeremiah 13:17, Luke 19:41, Acts 20:19, Acts 20:30, Acts 20:31, Romans 9:2, 2 Corinthians 2:4, 2 Corinthians 11:29
enemies: Philippians 1:15, Philippians 1:16, 1 Corinthians 1:18, Galatians 1:7, Galatians 2:21, Galatians 6:12
Reciprocal: Genesis 25:34 - thus Esau Leviticus 11:5 - but divideth Leviticus 11:16 - General Leviticus 11:20 - General Leviticus 13:8 - General 1 Samuel 15:35 - Samuel mourned 2 Kings 8:11 - wept Psalms 10:18 - the man Psalms 119:53 - horror Ezekiel 33:9 - if thou Matthew 5:19 - do Matthew 13:38 - the children of the wicked Luke 12:45 - to eat Romans 6:4 - even Romans 8:5 - mind 1 Corinthians 13:6 - Rejoiceth not 1 Corinthians 16:9 - there 2 Corinthians 11:3 - I fear 2 Corinthians 12:21 - that I Philippians 1:27 - let 1 Timothy 1:19 - which 1 Timothy 5:15 - General 2 Timothy 3:4 - lovers of God Hebrews 13:17 - with grief
Cross-References
And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Know for a certainty that the Lord your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the Lord your God hath given you.
And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord .
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For many walk,.... אחרניאית, "otherwise", as the Syriac version adds; and which truly explains the words, and gives the sense; they walked not as the apostle and his followers; they walked as men, as carnal men, 1 Corinthians 3:3, according to the course of the world, after their ungodly lusts, Ephesians 2:2; or according to the rites and ceremonies of the Mosaic dispensation, and not uprightly, and according to the truth of the Gospel: and there were many that walked so; the road both of profaneness and error is a broad one, and many walk therein, which makes it the more dangerous; the examples of many have great force, though a multitude is not to be followed to do evil; the conversation of a great part of professors is not to be imitated; the few names in Sardis that have not defiled their garments with error or immorality should be marked for ensamples, Revelation 3:4, and the majority shunned:
of whom I have told you often; both when present among them by word of mouth, and when absent from them by writing; for the apostle was a faithful watchman and monitor to this church, and to all the churches, the care of which lay upon him; and diligent he was to warn them against false teachers, whose doctrines and practices he knew were of pernicious consequence:
and now tell you even weeping; partly on account of those evil men, whose state and condition, notwithstanding their profession, was very bad; and partly on account of the glory of God and Christ, and the honour of religion, which suffered much through them; and also on account of the Philippians, lest they should be drawn aside by them; and because they had taken so little notice of his frequent cautions and advice: and that they might the better know the men he spoke of, and avoid them, he describes them by the following characters,
[that they are] the enemies of the cross of Christ; not that, though they might be Jews, they were like the unbelieving Jews, who were open and implacable enemies of a crucified Christ, called Jesus accursed, and anathematized him and his followers, and to whom the preaching of Christ crucified was an offence and stumblingblock, 1 Corinthians 1:23; for these were professors of Christ, and pretended to preach Christ, and him crucified: nor were they such heretics that denied that Christ really assumed human nature, and was really crucified and died; and affirmed that all this was only in appearance, or that an image was hung upon the cross for him, or Simon the Cyrenian was crucified in his room, as some have thought, which was the heresy of Simon Magus, and his disciple Basilides: nor is the sense that they were averse to the crucifixion of the affections with the lusts, though this seems to be their true character, since they were sensual, and minded earthly things; but the meaning is, that they disliked the cross of Christ; they were unwilling to take it up for his sake, and follow him; they studied all ways and means to shun it; they ingratiated themselves into the affections of the unbelieving Jews, by complying with the ceremonies of the law, and bearing hard upon the apostle and his ministry, that so they might not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ; and besides, by enjoining circumcision and an observance of the law as necessary to salvation, they, as much as in them lay, made void the efficacy of the cross and death of Christ, and made that and him unprofitable, and of no effect to the souls of men; and were both doctrinally and practically enemies of the cross of Christ: and so all such professors of Christ, who walk not according to the Gospel, though they are not open and direct enemies to the Gospel, which is the preaching of the cross, yet they are secret and indirect ones, and oftentimes do more mischief to it by their lives, than the keenest adversaries of it can by their pens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For many walk - Many live, the Christian life being often in the Scriptures compared with a journey. In order to induce them to imitate those who were the most holy, the apostle says that there were many, even in the church, whom it would not be safe for them to imitate. He evidently here refers mainly to the church at Philippi, though it may be that he meant to make the declaration general, and to say that the same thing existed in other churches. There has not probably been any time yet in the Christian church when the same thing might not be said.
Of whom I have told you often - When he preached in Philippi. Paul was not afraid to speak of church members when they did wrong, and to warn others not to imitate their example. He did not attempt to cover up or excuse guilt because it was in the church, or to apologize for the defects and errors of those who professed to be Christians. The true way is, to admit that there are those in the church who do not honor their religion, and to warn others against following their example. But this fact does not make religion any the less true or valuable, anymore than the fact that there is counterfeit money makes all money bad, or makes genuine coin of no value.
And now tell you even weeping - This is the true spirit with which to speak of the errors and faults of Christians. It is not to go and blazon their inconsistencies abroad. It is not to find pleasure in the fact that they are inconsistent. It is not to reproach religion on that account, and to say that all religion is false and hollow, and that all professors are hypocrites. We should rather speak of the fact with tears; for, if there is anything that should make us weep, it is, that there are those in the church who are hypocrites, or who dishonor their profession. We should weep:
(1)Because they are in danger of destroying their own souls;
(2)Because they are destined to certain disappointment when they come to appear before God; and,
(3)Because they injure the cause of religion, and give occasion to the “enemies of the Lord to speak reproachfully.” He who loves religion. will weep over the inconsistencies of its friends; he who does not, will exult and triumph.
That they are the enemies of the cross of Christ - The “cross” was the instrument of death on which the Redeemer died to make atonement for sin. As the atonement made by Christ for sin is that which especially distinguishes his religion from all others, the “cross” comes to be used to denote his religion; and the phrase here means, that they were the enemies of his religion, or were strangers to the gospel. It is not to be supposed that they were open and avowed enemies of the cross, or that they denied that the Lord Jesus died on the cross to make an atonement. The characteristic of those persons mentioned in the following verse is, rather, that they were living in a manner which showed that they were strangers to his pure gospel. An immoral life is enmity to the cross of Christ; for he died to make us holy. A life where there is no evidence that the heart is renewed, is enmity to the cross; for he died that we might be renewed. They are the enemies of the cross, in the church:
(1)Who have never been born again;
(2)Who are living in the indulgence of known sin;
(3)Who manifest none of the peculiarities of those who truly love him;
(4)Who have a deeper interest in worldly affairs than they have in the cause of the Redeemer;
(5)Whom nothing can induce to give up their worldly concerns when God demands it;
(6)Who are opposed to all the unique doctrines of Christianity; and,
(7)Who are opposed to all the special duties of religion, or who live in the habitual neglect of them.
It is to be feared that at all times there are such enemies of the cross in the church, and the language of the apostle implies that it is a proper subject of grief and tears. He wept over it, and so should we. It is from this cause that so much injury is done to the true religion in the world. One secret enemy in a camp may do more harm than fifty men who are open foes; and a single unholy or inconstant member in a church may do much more injury than many men who are avowedly opposed to religion. It is not by infidels, and scoffers, and blasphemers, so much, that injury is done to the cause of religion; it is by the unholy lives of its professed friends - the worldliness, inconsistency, and want of the proper spirit of religion, among those who are in the church. Nearly all the objections that are made to religion are from this quarter; and, if this objection were taken away, the religion of Christ would soon spread its triumphs around the globe.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 18. For many walk, c.] The Judaizing teachers continue to preach, who wish to incorporate circumcision, and other ordinances of the law, with the Gospel.
They are the enemies of the cross of Christ — They rather attribute justification to the Levitical sacrifices, than to the sacrificial death of Christ and thus they are enemies to that cross, and will not suffer persecution for its sake. They please the world, and are in no danger of reproach.
