Philippians
King James Version (KJV)
Philippians 3:2
“Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.”
King James Version (KJV)
Philippians 3:2 Context
1Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe. 2Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. 3For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. 4Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more: 5Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
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Translation Details for Philippians 3:2
Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
Other Translations for Philippians 3:2
Bible Commentary for Philippians 3:2
Wesley's Notes for Philippians 3:2
3:2 Beware of dogs - Unclean, unholy, rapacious men. The title which the Jews usually gave the gentiles, he returns upon themselves. The concision - Circumcision being now ceased, the apostle will not call them the circumcision, but coins a term on purpose, taken from a Greek word used by the LXX, #Lev 21:5|, for such a cutting as God had forbidden.
People's Bible Notes for Philippians 3:2
Php 3:2 Beware of dogs. Those snarling and snapping like dogs. The Judaizing teachers, who so troubled the early churches, are meant. See Ga 1:6-9. Beware of evil workers. So called because by their false teaching about the necessity of circumcision they wrought evil. Beware of the concision. Applied to those who called themselves the circumcision. It means simply a "cutting", the class who were mutilated. It is contemptuous.
Beware of dogs, beware of euill workers: beware of the concision.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision;
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the concision:
- American Standard Version (1901)
Be on the watch against dogs, against the workers of evil, against those of the circumcision:
- Basic English Bible
See to dogs, see to evil workmen, see to the concision.
- Darby Bible
Beware of dogs, beware of evil-workers, beware of the concision.
- Webster's Bible
Beware of `the dogs,' the bad workmen, the self-mutilators.
- Weymouth Bible
Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision.
- World English Bible
Se ye houndis, se ye yuele werk men, se ye dyuysioun.
- Wycliffe Bible
look to the dogs, look to the evil-workers, look to the concision;
- Youngs Literal Bible