Phil 3:17 Be ye followers of me, brethren, and observe them who walk so as you have our model. 18 For many walk, of whom I have told you often (and now tell you weeping), that they are enemies of the cross of Christ; 19 Whose end is destruction; whose God is their belly; and whose glory is in their shame; who mind earthly things. 20 But our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ
Haydock Commentaries:
Ver.17. Be followers of me, always in distrust of your own merits, and always eager to advance in perfection, as I am. It is a happy thing when a pastor can thus in all sincerity and simplicity address his flock. --- He exhorts them to follow him in what he had taught them, and in the model of a good life, which he had set before them. He repeats to them, with tears, what he had formerly told them, that many walk and conduct themselves as enemies to the cross of Christ, to Christ crucified, by abandoning themselves to the pleasures of a sensual life, who glory in things they ought to be ashamed of. He hints at the disciples of Simon Magus, or of the Jєωιѕн doctors. (Witham)