18 (A)[a] For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

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  1. Philippians 3:18 He painteth out the false apostles in their colors, not upon malice or ambition, but with sorrow and tears, to wit, because that being enemies of the Gospel (for that is joined with affliction) they regard nothing else, but the commodities of this life: that is to say, that flowing in peace, and quietness, and all worldly pleasures, they may live in great estimation amongst men, whose miserable end he forewarned them of.

10 [a]That I may [b]know him, and the virtue of his resurrection, and the [c]fellowship of his afflictions, and be made conformable unto his death,

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  1. Philippians 3:10 This is the end of righteousness by faith touching us, that by the virtue of his resurrection we may scape from death.
  2. Philippians 3:10 That I may feel him indeed, and have a trial of him.
  3. Philippians 3:10 The way to that eternal salvation is to follow Christ’s steps, by afflictions and persecutions, until we come to Christ himself, who is our mark whereat we shoot, and receive that reward whereunto God calleth us in him. And the Apostle setteth these true exercises of godliness against those vain ceremonies of the Law, wherein the false apostles put the sum of godliness.

16 They profess that they know God, but by works they deny him, and are abominable and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

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