Philippians 3:2

Paul warns three times to beware of "dogs," evil workers, and the false circumcision. He sternly cautions against legalistic false teachers.

Cross-references · 31

• 2 Cor 11:13For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
• Titus 1:16They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.
• Rev 22:15But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
• Isa 56:10–11Israel’s watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber.
• 2 Tim 3:1–6But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come.
• Gal 5:15But if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.
• Phil 3:19Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.
• Ps 22:16For dogs surround me; a band of evil men encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet.
• Matt 7:15Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
• Ps 22:20Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of wild dogs.
• Gal 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.
• Rev 21:8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
• 2 Tim 4:3–4For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.
• 2 Tim 4:14–15Alexander the coppersmith did great harm to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds.
• Rev 3:9Look at those who belong to the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews but are liars instead. I will make them come and bow down at your feet, and they will know that I love you.
• Jude 1:4For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
• Jude 1:10–13These men, however, slander what they do not understand, and like irrational animals, they will be destroyed by the things they do instinctively.
• Gal 5:13For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.
• Prov 26:11As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
• 1 Tim 1:19holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and thereby shipwrecked their faith.
• Rom 2:28A man is not a Jew because he is one outwardly, nor is circumcision only outward and physical.
• Matt 7:22–23Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’
• Phil 3:3For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—
• Gal 2:3–4Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.
• Gal 5:1–3It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.
• Matt 7:6Do not give dogs what is holy; do not throw your pearls before swine. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.
• Matt 24:10At that time many will fall away and will betray and hate one another,
• Ps 119:115Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may obey the commandments of my God.
• Rev 2:9I know your affliction and your poverty—though you are rich! And I am aware of the slander of those who falsely claim to be Jews, but are in fact a synagogue of Satan.
• 2 Pet 2:22Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”
• 2 Pet 2:18–20With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.

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