20 Bible Verses about Citizens
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We, however, are free citizens of Heaven, and we are waiting with longing expectation for the coming from Heaven of a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,
You are therefore no longer mere foreigners or persons excluded from civil rights. On the contrary you share citizenship with God's people and are members of His family.
At that time you were living apart from Christ, estranged from the Commonwealth of Israel, with no share by birth in the Covenants which are based on the Promises, and you had no hope and no God, in all the world.
"I am a Jew," replied Paul, "belonging to Tarsus in Cilicia, and am a citizen of no unimportant city. Give me leave, I pray you, to speak to the people."
Dear friends, I entreat you as pilgrims and foreigners not to indulge the cravings of your lower natures: for all such cravings wage war upon the soul.
And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of Heaven from God and made ready like a bride attired to meet her husband.
But, when they had tied him up with the straps, Paul said to the Captain who stood by, "Does the Law permit you to flog a Roman citizen--and one too who is uncondemned?"
But Paul said to them, "After cruelly beating us in public, without trial, Roman citizens though we are, they have thrown us into prison, and are they now going to send us away privately? No, indeed! Let them come in person and fetch us out."
"'He who overcomes--I will make him a pillar in the sanctuary of My God, and he shall never go out from it again. And I will write on him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which is to come down out of Heaven from My God, and My own new name.
"I paid a large sum for my citizenship," said the Tribune. "But I was born free," said Paul.
For we have no permanent city here, but we are longing for the city which is soon to be ours.
And there shall be no need for them to teach each one his fellow citizen and each one his brother, saying, Know the Lord. For all will know Me from the least of them to the greatest;
You are a building which has been reared on the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, the cornerstone being Christ Jesus Himself,
"Now his countrymen hated him, and sent a deputation after him to say, 'We are not willing that he should become our king.'
but, as it is, we see them eager for a better land, that is to say, a heavenly one. For this reason God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has now prepared a city for them.
So the men who had been on the point of putting him under torture immediately left him. And the Tribune, too, was frightened when he learnt that Paul was a Roman citizen, for he had had him bound.
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Citizens » Rights of
But Paul said to them, "After cruelly beating us in public, without trial, Roman citizens though we are, they have thrown us into prison, and are they now going to send us away privately? No, indeed! Let them come in person and fetch us out."
Citizens » Loyal » israelites
Citizens » Wicked and treasonable
and especially those who are abandoned to sensuality--craving, as they do, for polluted things, and scorning control. Fool-hardy and self-willed, they do not tremble when speaking evil of glorious beings;
Yet in just the same way these dreamers also pollute the body, while they set authority at naught and speak evil of dignities.
Citizens » Loyal » David
Citizens » Instances of wicked » israelites
Citizens » Loyal » David's soldiers
Citizens » Figurative
You are therefore no longer mere foreigners or persons excluded from civil rights. On the contrary you share citizenship with God's people and are members of His family.
We, however, are free citizens of Heaven, and we are waiting with longing expectation for the coming from Heaven of a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,
Citizens » Instances of wicked » Jozachar and jozabad
Citizens » Instances of wicked » Ishmael
Citizens » Instances of wicked » Hadad and jeroboam
Citizens » Instances of wicked » Absalom
Citizens » Instances of wicked » Jews
Citizens » Loyal » Hushai
Citizens » Instances of wicked » Korah, dathan, and abiram
Citizens » Loyal » Jehoiada
Citizens » Instances of wicked » Theudas and four-hundred seditious persons
Years ago Theudas appeared, professing to be a person of importance, and a body of men, some four hundred in number, joined him. He was killed, and all his followers were dispersed and annihilated. After him, at the time of the Census, came Judas, the Galilaean, and was the leader in a revolt. He too perished, and all his followers were scattered.
Citizens » Instances of wicked » Miriam and aaron
Citizens » Instances of wicked » Ahithophel
Citizens » Instances of wicked » Sheba
Citizens » Loyal » Mordecai
Citizens » Loyal » Joab
Citizens » Instances of wicked » Sons of sennacherib
Citizens » Instances of wicked » Ephraimites
Citizens » Instances of wicked » Adonijah
Citizens » Instances of wicked » Amaziah
Citizens » Instances of wicked » Shallum
Citizens » Instances of wicked » Menahem
Citizens » Instances of wicked » Baasha
Citizens » Instances of wicked » Hoshea
Citizens » Instances of wicked » Pekah
Citizens » Instances of wicked » Amon
Citizens » Loyal » Barzillai
Citizens » Instances of wicked » An egyptian
"Are you not the Egyptian who some years ago excited the riot of the 4,000 cut-throats, and led them out into the Desert?"
Citizens » Instances of wicked » Zimri
Citizens » Instances of wicked » Bigthan and teresh
Citizens » Instances of wicked » Shechemites
Citizens » Instances of wicked » Barabbas
and at this time a man named Barabbas was in prison among the insurgents--persons who in the insurrection had committed murder.
Ingratitude » Of man to man » Citizens
Topics on Citizens
Citizens, Christian Duties
Romans 13:1-7Let every individual be obedient to those who rule over him; for no one is a ruler except by God's permission, and our present rulers have had their rank and power assigned to them by Him.
Citizens, Heavenly
Philippians 3:20We, however, are free citizens of Heaven, and we are waiting with longing expectation for the coming from Heaven of a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,
Roman Citizens
Acts 16:37But Paul said to them, "After cruelly beating us in public, without trial, Roman citizens though we are, they have thrown us into prison, and are they now going to send us away privately? No, indeed! Let them come in person and fetch us out."
