Philippians 3:20

Heaven and the new creation Hope Identity and self-worth The return of Christ

¹⁸ (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the 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.)

For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

²¹ Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
KJV: For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
WEB: For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
ASV: For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
DARBY: for *our* commonwealth has its existence in [the] heavens, from which also we await the Lord Jesus Christ [as] Saviour,
BLB: For our citizenship is in the heavens, from where also we eagerly await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

ÅB: For vårt rike er i himlene, og derfra venter vi og den Herre Jesus Kristus som frelser,
OTB: Men vårt sanne hjem er i himmelen, og vi venter ivrig på en Frelser derfra, Herren Jesus Kristus,
B1930: For vårt rike er i himlene, og derfra venter vi og den Herre Jesus Kristus som frelser,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Ephesians 2:19
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
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Colossians 3:1–3
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
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2 Corinthians 4:18–5:1
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
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Hebrews 12:22
But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
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1 Peter 1:3–4
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
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2 Timothy 4:8
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
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Ephesians 2:6
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
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2 Peter 3:12–14
Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
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