Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
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Gill's Exposition
For our conversation is in heaven,.... The Ethiopic version renders it, "we have our city in heaven"; and the words may be truly rendered, "our citizenship is in heaven"; that is, the city whereof we…
Barnes' Notes
Whose end is destruction - That is, as they have no true religion, they must perish in the same manner as all sinners. A mere profession will not save them. Unless they are converted, and become the…
Adam Clarke
Whose end is destruction - This is the issue of their doctrine and of their conduct. They are here described by three characters:
1. Their god is their belly - they live not in any reference to…
He closes the chapter with warnings and exhortations.
I. He warns them against following the examples of seducers and evil teachers (Phi 3:18, Phi 3:19): Many walk, of whom I have told you often, and…
Cambridge Bible
end A word of awful and hopeless import. Cp. Rom 6:21; 2Co 11:15; Heb 6:8; 1Pe 4:17.
destruction R.V., perdition. See on Php 1:28.
their belly Lit. and better, the belly. Cp. Rom 16:18 for the same…
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