Philippians 3:18 Cross References - Moffatt

¹⁸ For many — as I have often told you and tell you now with tears — many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.

⁴¹ And when he saw the city, as he approached, he wept over it,

¹⁹ how I served the Lord in all humility, with many a tear and many a trial which I encountered owing to the plots of the Jews,

³⁰ and men of your own number will arise with perversions of the truth to draw the disciples after them. ³¹ So be on the alert, remember how for three whole years I never ceased night and day to watch over each one of you with tears.

² when I say that I am in sore pain. I suffer endless anguish of heart.

¹⁸ Those who are doomed to perish find the story of the cross 'sheer folly,' but it means the power of God for those whom he saves.

⁹ What! do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Realm of God? Make no mistake about it; neither the immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor catamites nor sodomites

⁴ For I wrote you in sore distress and misery of heart, with many a tear — not to pain you but to convince you of my love, my special love for you.

¹³ 'Apostles'? They are spurious apostles, false workmen — they are masquerading as 'apostles of Christ.'

²⁹ Who is weak, and I do not feel his weakness? Whose faith is hurt, and I am not aglow with indignation?

⁷ It simply means that certain individuals are unsettling you; they want to distort the gospel of Christ.

¹⁴ But I saw they were swerving from the true line of the gospel; so I said to Cephas in presence of them all, "If you live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, though you are a Jew yourself, why do you oblige the Gentiles to become Jews?" —

²¹ I do not annul God's grace; but if righteousness comes by way of the Law, then indeed Christ's death was useless.

²¹ envy, [murder], drinking bouts, revelry, and the like; I tell you beforehand as I have told you already, that people who indulge in such practices will never inherit the Realm of God.

¹² These men who are keen upon you getting circumcised are just men who want to make a grand display in the flesh — it is simply to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

¹⁷ Now in the Lord I insist and protest that you must give up living like pagans; for their purposes are futile,

⁵ Be sure of this, that no one guilty of sexual vice or impurity or lust (that is, an idolater) possesses any inheritance in the realm of Christ and God. ⁶ Let no one deceive you with specious arguments; these are the vices that bring down God's anger on the sons of disobedience.

⁴ in all my prayers for you all I always pray with a sense of joy

¹⁵ Some of them, it is true, are actually preaching Christ from envy and rivalry, others from goodwill; ¹⁶ the latter do it from love to me, knowing that I am set here to defend the gospel,

⁶ no one is to defraud or overreach his brother in this matter, for the Lord avenges all these sins, as we told you already in our solemn protest against them.

¹¹ But we are informed that some of your number are loafing, busybodies instead of busy.

¹⁰ particularly those who fall in with the polluting appetite of the flesh and despise the Powers celestial. Daring, presumptuous creatures! they are not afraid to scoff at the angelic Glories;

¹³ wild waves foaming out their own shame, wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved eternally.