Philippians 3:19

Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

End - fixed doom (2 Corinthians 11:15). Contrast Romans 6:22.

Destruction - everlasting, at Christ's coming (Philippians 1:28): contrast to "Saviour" (Philippians 3:20).

Whose god is their belly (Romans 16:18) - hereafter to be destroyed by; God (1 Corinthians 6:13): in contrast to our "body" (Philippians 3:21), which our God, the Lord Jesus, shall 'fashion like unto His glorious body.' Their belly is now pampered, our body now wasted: then the states of both shall be reversed.

Glory is in their shame. As "glory" often in the Old Testament means 'god' (Psalms 106:20), so here it answers to "whose god," in the parallel clause. "Shame" is the Old Testament term contemptuously given to an idol (Judges 6:32, margin). Hosea 4:7 seems referred to (cf. Romans 1:32). Their glory is in what is really matter of shame-sensuality and carnality.

Mind earthly things, [ ta (G3588) epigeia (G1919) fronountes (G5426)] (Romans 8:5). Contrast Philippians 3:20; Colossians 3:2 [ ta (G3588) anoo (G507) phroneite (G5426)], 'Set your mind on things above.' The earthly are, like Sisera, nailed to the earth while asleep.