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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• (Isa. 56:10‑11)

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Rev. 22:15• ¹⁵Without {i}are{/i} the dogs and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and every one that loveth and practiceth a lie. (Rev. 22:15)

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Psa. 119:115• (Psa. 119:115)

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Gal. 5:1‑3• ¹Stand fast in the freedom with which Christ hath freed us, and be not again held 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 if circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. (Gal. 5:1‑3)

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of dogs.

Prov. 26:11• (Prov. 26:11)

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Isa. 56:10‑11• (Isa. 56:10‑11)

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

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Matt. 24:10• ¹⁰And then shall many be stumbled, and give up one another, 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 by one another. (Gal. 5:15)

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2 Tim. 4:14‑15• ¹⁴Alexander, the coppersmith, did many evil things against me: the Lord will render to him according to his works;
¹⁵of whom be thou ware also, for he exceedingly withstood our words. (2 Tim. 4:14‑15)

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2 Peter 2:22• ²²[But] there hath happened to them the [saying] of the true proverb, A dog returned to his own vomit, and A sow washed into rolling in mire. (2 Peter 2:22)

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Rev. 22:15• ¹⁵Without {i}are{/i} the dogs and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and every one that loveth and practiceth a lie. (Rev. 22:15)

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Phil. 3:19• ¹⁹whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is] the belly, and they glory in their shame, who mind the things of earth. (Phil. 3:19)

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Psa. 119:115• (Psa. 119:115)

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Matt. 7:22‑23• ²²Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy by thy name, and by thy name cast out demons, and by thy name do many works of power?
²³And then will I avow to them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work 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 for freedom, brethren: only [use] not your freedom for an opportunity 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 thrust away made shipwreck concerning the faith; (1 Tim. 1:19)

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2 Tim. 3:1‑6• ¹But this know, that in [the] last days grievous times shall be there.
²For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
³without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, uncontrolled, fierce, haters of good,
⁴traitors, headstrong, puffed up, pleasure-lovers rather than God-lovers,
⁵having a form of piety, but having denied the power thereof; and from these turn away.
⁶For of these are they that enter into houses and lead 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 will be when they will not endure sound teaching; but according to their own lusts they will heap up to themselves teachers, having an itching ear;
⁴and from the truth they will turn away their ear, and will be turned aside unto fables. (2 Tim. 4:3‑4)

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

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2 Peter 2:18‑20• ¹⁸For uttering overswellings of vanity, they allure in lusts of the flesh, by dissolutenesses, those that are just escaping from them that walk in error,
¹⁹promising them liberty while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is worsted, by him is he also held in bondage.
²⁰For if after having escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, but again entangled and worsted thereby, the last for them is become worse than the first. (2 Peter 2:18‑20)

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Jude 4,10‑13• ⁴For certain men have crept in unawares. They, who before of old were ordained to this sentence, ungodly men turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness and denying our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ.
¹⁰But these rail at whatever things they know not; but whatever they understand naturally, as the irrational animals, in these things they corrupt themselves.
¹¹Woe unto them! because they went in the way of Cain, and rushed greedily into the error of Balaam's hire, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.
¹²These are spots in your love-feasts, feasting together, fearlessly pasturing themselves; clouds without water carried along by winds; autumnal trees without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;
¹³raging sea-waves foaming out their own shames; wandering stars for whom hath been reserved the gloom of darkness forever. (Jude 4,10‑13)

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Rev. 21:8• ⁸But for the cowardly and faithless and abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part {i}shall be{/i} in the lake that 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 that worship God in Spirit and boast in Christ Jesus, and have no trust in flesh. (Phil. 3:3)

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Rom. 2:28• ²⁸For he that is outwardly a Jew is not [one], nor [is] that which is outward in flesh circumcision, (Rom. 2:28)

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

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Gal. 5:1‑3,6• ¹Stand fast in the freedom with which Christ hath freed us, and be not again held 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 if circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
⁶For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision hath any force nor uncircumcision, but faith working by love. (Gal. 5:1‑3,6)

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

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