Philippians 3:19 NLT,NIV,ESV

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Philippians 3:19

EARTHLY THINGS‘Who mind earthly things.’ Php_3:19 Every circumference is generated from a centre; every life must have its pivot. I. God is the one true centre of our life.—It has been said, ‘God’s centre is everywhere; His circumference nowhere.’ If you and I refuse to take God as the central thought, the innermost idea of our life, we are convicted of thrusting Him from His rightful position. Our life becomes an inharmonious disadjusted thing; its activities become distracted, fragmentary.... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Philippians 3:10-21

His Knowing Of Christ Involves Participation With Him In The Power Of His Resurrection, And Equal Participation With Him in His Sufferings, By Himself Recognising That He Has Died With Christ. And His Aim Is To Participate In The Resurrection From The Dead (Philippians 3:10-21 ). In The New Testament the power of Christ’s resurrection is seen as an effective transforming power. It is through that power that in Christ God will, from start to finish, bring about the whole salvation of the whole... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Philippians 3:19

‘Whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.’ The people in mind, who were seemingly visiting preachers (for Paul indicates no exceptions when he praises the Philippian church as a whole - Philippians 1:3-11), have their belly as their god, glory in what is shameful, and have their minds totally set on earthly things. They were the total opposite of the One Who emptied Himself, chose the way of sufferings and the cross, and Whose... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Philippians 3:17-21

Php_3:17-21 . A Contrast.— The Philippians are to follow Paul’ s example in this matter. It is needed because many live very differently. They are a great grief to him; indulging in gross living and even glorying in that for which they should be ashamed, their minds are set on earthly things. Paul and the Philippians claim a citizenship in heaven, corresponding to the claim of citizenship in Rome, which the people in Philippi may put forward, seeing that it is a Roman colony. He and they... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Philippians 3:19

Whose end is destruction; their condition will at last be miserable, as he had limited above, Philippians 1:28, of their being under the dismal token of perdition; their end will be according to their works, 2 Corinthians 11:15. However they may live delicately at present, in gratifying their sensual appetites, be free from persecution, admired and respected by many, and please themselves in their present course, yet their fruit and wages at the last cast will be dreadful, Romans 6:21,Romans... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Philippians 3:17-19

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESPhilippians 3:17. Followers together of me.—He does not, as some ungracious pastors do, show the steep road to perfection whilst himself staying at the wicket-gate. Like the good Shepherd he leadeth his sheep.Philippians 3:18. For many walk … the enemies of the cross of Christ.—Christians in name only, whose loose interpretations of the perfect law of liberty make it possible to live an animal life. The cross of Christ, symbol of His self-renunciation, should be... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Philippians 3:19-20

Philippians 3:19-20 I. Others, says St. Paul, have their mind set upon things below; appetite is their god; they make the Gospel itself a means of worldly gain; what they pride themselves upon is just what a Christian should be ashamed of; and the end of these things is death. When the world perishes, its children and its subjects must perish too. But we are not of the world. Already, even in this life, our citizenship is in heaven; and thither is our eye ever turned, in expectation of His... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Philippians 3:18-19

DISCOURSE: 2157A WARNING TO THE EARTHLY-MINDEDPhilippians 3:18-19. 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: whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.NOTWITHSTANDING the utter extinction of vital godliness from the heart of man, through the introduction of sin into the world, there remain within him some principles of goodness, weakened indeed,... read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Philippians 3:18-19

False Professors Solemnly Warned A Sermon (No. 102) Delivered on Sabbath Evening, August 24, 1856, by the REV. C. H. Spurgeon At Exeter Hall, Strand. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "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: Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things." Philippians 3:18-19 . PAUL... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Philippians 3:1-21

Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Philippians 3 .Again, remember that the background of this epistle, Paul is chained to a Roman soldier in Rome, in prison, writing to the Philippians. The keynote of the epistle is rejoice, and he said,Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord ( Philippians 3:1 ).You know, oftentimes it is extremely difficult to rejoice in circumstances. In fact, I think sometimes it is impossible to rejoice in circumstances. I just did a dumb thing, I ran through a red light... read more