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--The original may signify either "our city" or "our citizenship" is in heaven. But both the grammatical form and the ordinary usage of the word (not elsewhere found in the New Testament) point to the former sense; which is also far better accordant with the general wording of the passage.
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Php 3:20-21. For our conversation is in heaven — We that are...
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20 KJV - Philippians 3:20 But our citizenship is in heaven,...
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20 NIV - Philippians 3:20 But our citizenship is in heaven,...
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20 NASB - Philippians 3:20 But our citizenship is in heaven,...
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20 NLT - Philippians 3:20 But our citizenship is in heaven,...
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20 ESV - Philippians 3:20 But our citizenship is in heaven,...
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Citizenship in Heaven … 19 Whose end is destruction: whose...
- Philippians 3
Citizenship in Heaven. 17 Join one another in following my...
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20 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, Read full chapter.
For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; Hebrews 13:14. Verse Concepts. For here we do not have a lasting city, but we are seeking the city which is to come. Luke 22:29-30.
Jan 4, 2022 · Many people may appear to be citizens of heaven, when, in fact, no rebirth has ever taken place in their hearts (Matthew 7:21). When God grants us citizenship in the Kingdom of Heaven, we become “new creatures” (2 Corinthians 5:17).
- What Defines A Citizen of Heaven?
- Sojourners in A Foreign Land
- Now But Not Yet
According to The Complete Word Study Dictionary, the Greek word for citizenship means “to behave as a citizen. Any public measures, administration of the state, and the condition of life of the citizen. In the New Testament, the state itself, community, commonwealth is used metaphorically of Christians in reference to their spiritual community and ...
Being a citizen of heaven leaves us as sojourners in this world. We are temporary residents, awaiting a heavenly city much like those described in the letter to the Hebrews. Charles Spurgeonsaid, “If our citizenship be in heaven, then we are aliens here; we are strangers and foreigners, pilgrims and sojourners in the earth, as all our fathers were....
The promise of our citizenship leaves us in a state of now but not yet. As believers in Christ, we are justified before God. At the same time, we have not yet received our glorified bodies, nor have we realized being seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Our names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, a future promise of our eternal security...
- Dawn Hill
Responsible citizenship is important, but our ultimate destiny isn't in this world, but with the Lord in heaven. Jesus likewise taught that His kingdom is not of this world (John 18:36) and that He is not of this world (John 8:23).
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20 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.
