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 Christ’s apostles.
• Titus 1:16They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
• Rev 22:15Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
• Isa 56:10–11His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
• 2 Tim 3:1–6But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.
• Gal 5:15But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.
• Phil 3:19whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
• Ps 22:16For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.
• Matt 7:15“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.
• Ps 22:20Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog.
• Gal 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
• Rev 21:8But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
• 2 Tim 4:3–4For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;
• 2 Tim 4:14–15Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds,
• Rev 3:9Behold, I give some of the synagogue of Satan, of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but lie. Behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.
• Jude 1:4For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.
• Jude 1:10–13But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.
• Gal 5:13For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
• Prov 26:11As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly.
• 1 Tim 1:19holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith;
• Rom 2:28For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;
• Matt 7:22–23Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’
• Phil 3:3For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
• Gal 2:3–4But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.
• Gal 5:1–3Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
• Matt 7:6“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
• Matt 24:10Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.
• Ps 119:115Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.
• Rev 2:9“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
• 2 Pet 2:22But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,” and “the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”
• 2 Pet 2:18–20For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

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