Since the ratio of green marbles to yellow marbles to red marbles is $3: 4: 2$, then we can let the numbers of green, yellow and red marbles be $3n, 4n$ and $2n$ for some positive integer $n$. Since 63 of the marbles in the bag are not red, then $3n+4n=63$ and so $7n=63$ or $n=9$, which means that the number of red marbles in the bag is $2n=2 \times 9=18$.