Philippians 3:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.”
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“For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“(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:”
King James Version · Public Domain“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:”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“for many walk of whom many times I told you--and now also weeping tell--the enemies of the cross of the Christ!”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Philippians 3:18 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 11:16the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,
- Leviticus 13:8The priest will reexamine him, and if the rash has spread on the skin, the priest must pronounce him unclean; he has a skin disease.
- Psalms 119:136My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.
- Isaiah 8:11For this is what the LORD has spoken to me with a strong hand, instructing me not to walk in the way of this people:
- Jeremiah 9:1Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.
- Jeremiah 13:17But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.
- Daniel 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.
- Luke 19:41As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it
- Acts 20:19I served the Lord with great humility and with tears, especially in the trials that came upon me through the plots of the Jews.
- Acts 20:30Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.
- Romans 9:2I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
- 1 Corinthians 1:18For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
- 1 Corinthians 6:9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
- 2 Corinthians 2:4For through many tears I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart, not to grieve you but to let you know how much I love you.
- 2 Corinthians 11:13For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
- 2 Corinthians 11:29Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn with grief?
- Galatians 1:7which is not even a gospel. Evidently some people are troubling you and trying to distort the gospel of Christ.
- Galatians 2:14When I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
- Galatians 2:21I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, Christ died for nothing.
- Galatians 5:21and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
- Galatians 6:12Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. They only do this to avoid persecution for the cross of Christ.
- Ephesians 4:17So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
- Ephesians 5:5For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
- Philippians 1:4In every prayer for all of you, I always pray with joy,
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