Philippians 3:19 Cross References - Moffatt

¹⁹ Destruction is their fate, the belly is their god, they glory in their shame, these men of earthly mind!

²³ But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, you Satan! You are a hindrance to me! Your outlook is not God's but man's."

⁴¹ Then he will say to those on the left, 'Begone from me, you accursed ones, to the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels!

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have ample stores laid up for many a year; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry."'

⁴⁵ But if that servant says to himself, 'My lord and master is long of arriving,' and if he starts to beat the menservants and maidservants, to eat and drink and get drunk, ⁴⁶ that servant's lord and master will arrive on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does not know; he will cut him in two and assign him the fate of unbelievers.

¹⁹ There was a rich man, clad in purple and fine linen, who lived sumptuously every day.

⁴ For a while he would not, but afterwards he said to himself, 'Though I have no reverence for God and no respect even for man,

²¹ Well, what did you gain then by it all? Nothing but what you are now ashamed of! The end of all that is death;

⁵ For those who follow the flesh have their interests in the flesh, and those who follow the Spirit have their interests in the Spirit. ⁶ The interests of the flesh mean death, the interests of the Spirit mean life and peace. ⁷ For the interests of the flesh are hostile to God; they do not yield to the law of God (indeed they cannot).

¹⁸ Such creatures are no servants of Christ our Lord, they are slaves of their own base desires; with their plausible and pious talk they beguile the hearts of unsuspecting people. But surely not of you!

³ you are still worldly. For with jealousy and quarrels in your midst, are you not worldly, are you not behaving like ordinary men?

² And yet you are puffed up! You ought much rather to be mourning the loss of a member! Expel the perpetrator of such a crime!

⁶ Your boasting is no credit to you. Do you not know that a morsel of dough will leaven the whole lump?

¹² No, I intend to go on as I am doing, in order to checkmate those who would fain make out that in the apostolate of which they boast they work on the same terms as I do.

¹⁵ So it is no surprise if his ministers also masquerade as ministers of righteousness. Their doom will answer to their deeds.

¹³ Why, even the circumcision party do not observe the Law themselves! They merely want you to get circumcised, so as to boast over your flesh!

²¹ Everybody is selfish, instead of caring for Jesus Christ.

² mind what is above, not what is on earth,

⁸ Then shall the Lawless One be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will destroy with the breath of his lips and quell by his appearing and arrival —

¹² so that all may be doomed who refuse faith in the Truth but delight in evil.

⁵ and constant friction between people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the Truth. They imagine religion is a paying concern.

⁴ they will be treacherous, reckless and conceited, preferring pleasure to God —

¹¹ they must be silenced, for they are undermining whole families by teaching objectionable doctrine for the base end of making money. ¹² It has been said by one of themselves, by a prophet of their own, that — "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons."

⁶ it is impossible to make them repent afresh, since they crucify the Son of God in their own persons and hold him up to obloquy. ⁷ For land which absorbs the rain that often falls on it, and bears plants that are useful to those for whom it is tilled, receives a blessing from God; ⁸ whereas, if it produces thorns and thistles, it is reprobate and on the verge of being cursed — its fate is to be burned.

¹⁶ But here you are, boasting in your proud pretensions! All such boasting is wicked.

¹ Still, false prophets did appear among the People, as among you also there will be false teachers, men who will insinuate destructive heresies, even disowning the Lord who ransomed them; they bring rapid destruction on themselves,

³ in their lust they will exploit you with cunning arguments — men whose doom comes apace from of old, and destruction is awake upon their trail.

¹³ done out of the profits of their evil-doing. Pleasure for them is revelling in open daylight — spots and blots, with their dissipated revelling, as they carouse in your midst! —

¹⁷ These people are waterless fountains and mists driven by a squall, for whom the nether gloom of darkness is reserved. ¹⁸ By talking arrogant futilities they beguile with the sensual lure of fleshly passion those who are just escaping from the company of misconduct — ¹⁹ promising them freedom, when they are themselves enslaved to corruption (for a man is the slave of whatever overpowers him).

⁴ for certain persons have slipped in by stealth (their doom has been predicted long ago), impious creatures who pervert the grace of our God into immorality and disown our sole liege and Lord, Jesus Christ.

¹² These people are stains on your love-feasts; they have no qualms about carousing in your midst, they look after none but themselves — rainless clouds, swept along by the wind, trees in autumn without fruit, doubly dead and so uprooted, ¹³ wild waves foaming out their own shame, wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved eternally.

¹⁶ For these people are murmurers, grumbling at their lot in life — they fall in with their own passions, their talk is arrogant, they pay court to men to benefit themselves.

⁷ As she gloried and played the wanton, so give her like measure of torture and tears. Since in her heart she vaunts, 'A queen I sit, no widow I, tears I shall never know,'

²⁰ But the Beast was seized, together with the false Prophet who had performed in his presence the miracles by means of which he seduced those who received the mark of the Beast and worshipped his statue; both of them were flung alive into the lake of fire that blazes with brimstone,

⁹ and they swarmed over the broad earth, encircling the leaguer of the saints and the beloved City; but fire descended from heaven and consumed them, ¹⁰ and their seducer, the devil, was flung into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the Beast and the false Prophet also lie, to be tortured day and night for ever and ever.

⁸ but as for the craven, the faithless, the abominable, as for murderers, the immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and liars of all kinds — their lot is the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

¹⁵ Begone, you dogs, you sorcerers, you vicious men, you murderers, you idolaters, you who love and practise falsehood, everyone of you!"