Philippians Chapter 3 verse 18 Holy Bible

ASV Philippians 3:18

For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, `that they are' the enemies of the cross of Christ:
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BBE Philippians 3:18

For there are those, of whom I have given you word before, and do so now with sorrow, who are haters of the cross of Christ;
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DARBY Philippians 3:18

(for many walk of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they [are] the enemies of the cross of Christ:
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KJV Philippians 3:18

(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
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WBT Philippians 3:18


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WEB Philippians 3:18

For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,
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YLT Philippians 3:18

for many walk of whom many times I told you -- and now also weeping tell -- the enemies of the cross of the Christ!
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ; rather, I used to tell you; the tense is imperfect. He used to speak thus of them when he was at Philippi; now, during his absence, the evil has increased, and he repeats his warning with tears. "Paul weeps," says Chrysostom, "for those at whom others laugh; so true is his sympathy, so deep his care for all men." He seems to be speaking here, not of the Jews, but of nominal Christians, who used their liberty for a cloke of licentiousness. Such are enemies of the cross; they hate sell-denial, they will not take up their cross. By their evil lives they bring shame upon the religion of the cross.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) Even weeping.--The especial sorrow, we cannot doubt, lay in this, that the Antinomian profligacy sheltered itself under his own preaching of liberty and of the superiority of the Spirit to the Law.The enemies of the cross of Christ.--Here again (as in the application of the epithet "dogs" in Philippians 3:2) St. Paul seems to retort on those whom he rebuked a name which they may probably have given to their opponents. The Judaising tenets were, indeed, in a true sense, an enmity to that cross, which was "to the Jews a stumbling-block," because, as St. Paul shows at large in the Galatian and Roman Epistles, they trenched upon faith in the all-sufficient atonement, and so (as he expresses it with startling emphasis) made Christ to "be dead in vain." But the doctrine of the Cross has two parts, distinct, yet inseparable. There is the cross which He alone bore for us, of which it is our comfort to know that we need only believe in it, and cannot share it. There is also the cross which we are "to take up and follow Him" (Matthew 10:38; Matthew 16:24), in the "fellowship of His sufferings and conformity to His death," described above (Philippians 3:10-11). St. Paul unites both in the striking passage which closes his Galatian Epistle (Galatians 6:14). He says, "God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ!" but he adds, "whereby the world is crucified unto me, and I to the world." Under cover, perhaps, of absolute acceptance of the one form of this great doctrine, the Antinomian party, "continuing in sin that grace might abound," were, in respect of the other, "enemies of the cross of Christ." . . .