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Phil. 3:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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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 blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
¹¹Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter. (Isa. 56:10‑11)

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Rev. 22:15• ¹⁵For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. (Rev. 22:15)

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Psa. 119:115• ¹¹⁵Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God. (Psa. 119:115)

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Gal. 5:1‑3• ¹Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
²Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
³For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. (Gal. 5:1‑3)

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Prov. 26:11• ¹¹As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. (Prov. 26:11)

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Isa. 56:10‑11• ¹⁰His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
¹¹Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter. (Isa. 56:10‑11)

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Matt. 7:6,15• ⁶Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
¹⁵Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. (Matt. 7:6,15)

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Matt. 24:10• ¹⁰And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. (Matt. 24:10)

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Gal. 5:15• ¹⁵But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. (Gal. 5:15)

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2 Tim. 4:14‑15• ¹⁴Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:
¹⁵Of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood our words. (2 Tim. 4:14‑15)

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2 Peter 2:22• ²²But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. (2 Peter 2:22)

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Rev. 22:15• ¹⁵For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. (Rev. 22:15)

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

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Psa. 119:115• ¹¹⁵Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God. (Psa. 119:115)

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Matt. 7:22‑23• ²²Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
²³And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. (Matt. 7:22‑23)

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

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Gal. 5:13• ¹³For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. (Gal. 5:13)

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1 Tim. 1:19• ¹⁹Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck: (1 Tim. 1:19)

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2 Tim. 3:1‑6• ¹This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
²For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
³Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
⁴Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
⁵Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
⁶For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, (2 Tim. 3:1‑6)

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2 Tim. 4:3‑4• ³For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
⁴And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. (2 Tim. 4:3‑4)

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Titus 1:16• ¹⁶They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. (Titus 1:16)

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2 Peter 2:18‑20• ¹⁸For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
¹⁹While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
²⁰For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. (2 Peter 2:18‑20)

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Jude 4,10‑13• ⁴For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
¹⁰But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
¹¹Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
¹²These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
¹³Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. (Jude 4,10‑13)

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Rev. 21:8• ⁸But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. (Rev. 21:8)

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Phil. 3:3• ³For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. (Phil. 3:3)

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

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Gal. 2:3‑4• ³But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:
⁴And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily 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• ¹Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
²Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
³For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
⁶For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love. (Gal. 5:1‑3,6)

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Rev. 2:9• ⁹I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. (Rev. 2:9)

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Rev. 3:9• ⁹Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to 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;