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Beware of dogsx, beware ofy evil workers, beware of thez concision.*

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Isa. 56:10‑11• ¹⁰His watchmen are all of them blind, they are without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs that cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber:
¹¹and the dogs are greedy, they know not to be satisfied, and these are shepherds that know not how to discern: they all turn to their own way, every one for his gain, even to the last of them: (Isa. 56:10‑11)

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Rev. 22:15• ¹⁵Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loves and makes a lie. (Rev. 22:15)

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Psa. 119:115• ¹¹⁵Depart from me, ye evil-doers; and I will observe the commandments of my God. (Psa. 119:115)

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Gal. 5:1‑3• ¹Christ has set us free in freedom; stand fast therefore, and be not held again in a yoke of bondage.
²Behold, I, Paul, say to you, that if ye are circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
³And I witness again to every man who is circumcised, that he is debtor to do the whole law. (Gal. 5:1‑3)

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Prov. 26:11• ¹¹As a dog turneth back to its vomit, so a fool repeateth his folly. (Prov. 26:11)

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Isa. 56:10‑11• ¹⁰His watchmen are all of them blind, they are without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs that cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber:
¹¹and the dogs are greedy, they know not to be satisfied, and these are shepherds that know not how to discern: they all turn to their own way, every one for his gain, even to the last of them: (Isa. 56:10‑11)

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Matt. 7:6,15• ⁶Give not that which is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, lest they trample them with their feet, and turning round rend you.
¹⁵But beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but within are ravening wolves. (Matt. 7:6,15)

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Matt. 24:10• ¹⁰And then will many be offended, and will deliver one another up, and hate one another; (Matt. 24:10)

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Gal. 5:15• ¹⁵but if ye bite and devour one another, see that ye are not consumed one of another. (Gal. 5:15)

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2 Tim. 4:14‑15• ¹⁴Alexander the smith did many evil things against me. The Lord will render to him according to his works.
¹⁵Against whom be *thou* also on thy guard, for he has greatly withstood our words. (2 Tim. 4:14‑15)

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2 Peter 2:22• ²²But that word of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog has turned back to his own vomit; and, The washed sow to her rolling in mud. (2 Peter 2:22)

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Rev. 22:15• ¹⁵Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loves and makes a lie. (Rev. 22:15)

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Phil. 3:19• ¹⁹whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and their glory in their shame, who mind earthly things:) (Phil. 3:19)

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Psa. 119:115• ¹¹⁵Depart from me, ye evil-doers; and I will observe the commandments of my God. (Psa. 119:115)

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Matt. 7:22‑23• ²²Many shall say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied through *thy* name, and through *thy* name cast out demons, and through *thy* name done many works of power?
²³and then will I avow unto them, I never knew you. Depart from me, workers of lawlessness. (Matt. 7:22‑23)

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2 Cor. 11:13• ¹³For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. (2 Cor. 11:13)

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Gal. 5:13• ¹³For *ye* have been called to liberty, brethren; only do not turn liberty into an opportunity to the flesh, but by love serve one another. (Gal. 5:13)

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1 Tim. 1:19• ¹⁹maintaining faith and a good conscience; which last some, having put away, have made shipwreck as to faith; (1 Tim. 1:19)

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2 Tim. 3:1‑6• ¹But this know, that in the last days difficult times shall be there;
²for men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, evil speakers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, profane,
³without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is good,
⁴traitors, headlong, of vain pretensions, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
⁵having a form of piety but denying the power of it: and from these turn away.
⁶For of these are they who are getting into houses, and leading captive silly women, laden with sins, led by various lusts, (2 Tim. 3:1‑6)

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2 Tim. 4:3‑4• ³For the time shall be when they will not bear sound teaching; but according to their own lusts will heap up to themselves teachers, having an itching ear;
⁴and they will turn away their ear from the truth, and will have turned aside to fables. (2 Tim. 4:3‑4)

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Titus 1:16• ¹⁶They profess to know God, but in works deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and found worthless as to every good work. (Titus 1:16)

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2 Peter 2:18‑20• ¹⁸For while speaking great highflown words of vanity, they allure with the lusts of the flesh, by dissoluteness, those who have just fled those who walk in error,
¹⁹promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is subdued, by him is he also brought into slavery.
²⁰For if after having escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, again entangled, they are subdued by these, their last state is worse than the first. (2 Peter 2:18‑20)

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Jude 4,10‑13• ⁴For certain men have got in unnoticed, they who of old were marked out beforehand to this sentence, ungodly persons, turning the grace of our God into dissoluteness, and denying our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ.
¹⁰But these, whatever things they know not, they speak railingly against; but what even, as the irrational animals, they understand by mere nature, in these things they corrupt themselves.
¹¹Woe to them! because they have gone in the way of Cain, and given themselves up to the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
¹²These are spots in your love-feasts, feasting together with you without fear, pasturing themselves; clouds without water, carried along by the winds; autumnal trees, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;
¹³raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shames; wandering stars, to whom has been reserved the gloom of darkness for eternity. (Jude 4,10‑13)

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Rev. 21:8• ⁸But to the fearful and unbelieving, and sinners, and those who make themselves abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone; which is the second death. (Rev. 21:8)

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Phil. 3:3• ³For *we* are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and boast in Christ Jesus, and do not trust in flesh. (Phil. 3:3)

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Rom. 2:28• ²⁸For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither that circumcision which is outward in flesh; (Rom. 2:28)

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Gal. 2:3‑4• ³(but neither was Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, compelled to be circumcised;)
⁴and it was on account of the false brethren brought in surreptitiously, who came in surreptitiously to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage; (Gal. 2:3‑4)

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Gal. 5:1‑3,6• ¹Christ has set us free in freedom; stand fast therefore, and be not held again in a yoke of bondage.
²Behold, I, Paul, say to you, that if ye are circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
³And I witness again to every man who is circumcised, that he is debtor to do the whole law.
⁶For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any force, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love. (Gal. 5:1‑3,6)

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Rev. 2:9• ⁹I know thy tribulation and thy poverty; but thou art rich; and the railing of those who say that they themselves are Jews, and are not, but a synagogue of Satan. (Rev. 2:9)

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Rev. 3:9• ⁹Behold, I make them of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews, and are not, but lie; behold, I will cause that they shall come and shall do homage before thy feet, and shall know that *I* have loved thee. (Rev. 3:9)

• To the Apostle, who knew Christ in heaven, all this {the Judaizing principles} was but a bait to draw the Christian away from Christ, and throw him back again into the ruin out of which Christ had drawn him. (“Philippians 3” by J.N. Darby)

• They were dogs, evil workers, that is, workers of malice and wickedness. (“Philippians 3” by J.N. Darby)

• If we love Him, we shall in our interactions with the assembly give the evil its true character, which it seeks to hide. This is real love and faithfulness to Christ. (“Philippians 3” by J.N. Darby)

• These three evils would seem to refer to judaizing teachers within the Christian circle, who sought to mingle law and grace. (“Philippians 3” by H. Smith)

• The dog is one that returns to his vomit and has no shame. To behave in a way that is manifestly evil, and refuse to acknowledge the evil, is to act without conscience or shame. (“Philippians 3” by H. Smith)

• {concision} Such may have professed to be the circumcision, who have refused the flesh, but, in reality, by seeking to mingle law and grace, they were indulging religious flesh rather than cutting off the flesh. The apostle exposes such in terms of contempt. (“Philippians 3” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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See to dogs, see to evil workmen, see to the concision.

W. Kelly Translation

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See to dogs, see to evil workers, see to the concision;