'Citizenship' in the Bible

The commander replied, “I bought this citizenship for a large amount of money.”“But I was born a citizen,” Paul said.

At that time you were without the Messiah, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens [outsiders without rights of citizenship], but you are fellow citizens with the saints (God’s people), and are [members] of God’s household,

but our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.