Philippians 3:19

Their end is destruction. For their god is their stomach, and their pride is in their shame. They think about earthly things.

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Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

In Context

18Many are walking—those about whom I have often told you, and now I am telling you with tears—as enemies of the cross of Christ.

20But our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 2:29Why, then, do you scorn my sacrifices and offerings that I required in the place where I live? Why do you honor your sons above me by making yourselves fat with the best of every offering of my people Israel?'

Psalms 17:14Rescue me from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of this world whose prosperity is in this life alone! 1 You will fill the bellies of your treasured ones with riches; they will have many children and will leave their wealth to their children. 1

Isaiah 56:10All their watchmen are blind, they do not understand. 1 They are all silent dogs who cannot bark. 1 They dream, and lying down they love to sleep. 1

Ezekiel 34:3You eat the fatty portions and you dress in wool. You slaughter the fatlings of the flock. You do not shepherd at all.

Micah 3:5Yahweh says this, 1 “As for the prophets who lead my people astray, 1 if one gives them something to eat, 1 they proclaim, 'Peace.' 1 But if he puts nothing in their mouths, 1 they dedicate themselves to wage war on him. 1

Habakkuk 2:15'Woe to the one who forces his neighbors to drink— 1 you express your anger + 2:15 There is some question about whether the Hebrew should be translated as anger or as wineskin . over and you make them drunk 1 in order to look at their nakedness.' 2

Matthew Henry on Philippians 3:18-21

The Apostle Urges His Own Example. ( a. d. 62.) 17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. 18 (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: 19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) 20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: 21 Who shall change… Read the whole commentary →

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