Philippians 3:20

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Philippians 3:20

But we are a colony of heaven, and we wait for the Saviour who comes from heaven, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Ephesians 2:19

Thus you are strangers and foreigners no longer, you share the membership of the saints, you belong to God's own household,

1 Corinthians 1:7

Thus you lack no spiritual endowment during these days of waiting till our Lord Jesus Christ is revealed;

Acts 1:11

who said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up to heaven? This Jesus who has been taken from you into heaven will come back, just as you have seen him depart to heaven."

Hebrews 12:22

You have come to mount Sion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to myriads of angels in festal gathering,

Matthew 6:19-21

Store up no treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and rust corrode, where thieves break in and steal:

Matthew 19:21

Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go and sell your property, give the money to the poor and you shall have treasure in heaven; then come and follow me."

Luke 12:21

So fares the man who lays up treasure for himself instead of gaining the riches of God."

Luke 12:32-34

Fear not, you little flock, for your Father is delighted to give you the Realm.

Luke 14:14

Then you will be blessed; for as they have no means of repaying you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just."

2 Corinthians 4:18-1

for those of us whose eyes are on the unseen, not on the seen; for the seen is transient, the unseen eternal.

2 Corinthians 5:8

and in this confidence I would fain get away from the body and reside with the Lord.

Galatians 4:26

But the Jerusalem on high is free, and she is 'our' mother.

Ephesians 2:6

together with Christ he raised and seated us within the heavenly sphere in Christ Jesus,

Philippians 1:10

so that you may be transparent and no harm to anyone in view of the day of Christ,

Philippians 1:18-21

What does it matter? Anyhow, for ulterior ends or honestly, Christ is being proclaimed, and I rejoice over that; yes and I will rejoice over it.

Colossians 1:5

due to the hope which is laid up for you in heaven. You heard of this hope originally in the message of the Truth, in that gospel

Colossians 3:1-3

Since then you have been raised with Christ, aim at what is above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God;

1 Thessalonians 1:10

and to wait for the coming of his Son from heaven ??the Son whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who rescues us from the Wrath to come.

1 Thessalonians 4:16

The Lord himself will descend from heaven with a loud summons, when the archangel calls and the trumpet of God sounds; the dead in Christ will rise first;

2 Thessalonians 1:7-8

and repay you who are troubled (as well as us) with rest and relief, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven together with the angels of his power

2 Timothy 4:8

Now the crown of a good life awaits me, with which the Lord, that just Judge, will reward me on the great Day ??and not only me but all who have loved and longed for his appearance.

Titus 2:13

awaiting the blessed hope of the appearance of the Glory of the great God and of our Saviour Christ Jesus,

Hebrews 9:28

so Christ, after being once sacrificed to bear the sins of many, will appear again, not to deal with sin but for the saving of those who look out for him.

Hebrews 10:34-35

for you did sympathize with the prisoners, and you took the confiscation of your own belongings cheerfully, conscious that elsewhere you had higher, you had lasting, possessions.

1 Peter 1:3-4

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have been born anew to a life of hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

2 Peter 3:12-14

you who expect and hasten the advent of the Day of God, which dissolves the heavens in fire and makes the stars blaze and melt!

Revelation 1:7

Lo, he is coming on the clouds, to be seen by every eye, even by those who impaled him, and all the tribes of earth will wail because of him: even so, Amen.

Revelation 21:10-27

So he carried me off, rapt in the Spirit, to a huge, high mountain, where he showed me the City, the holy Jerusalem, descending from God out of heaven,

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Summary

Philippians 3:20

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

Our

Conversation

From

We look

2 Peter 3:12

General references

Hebrews 13:14

Bible References

Our

What does it matter? Anyhow, for ulterior ends or honestly, Christ is being proclaimed, and I rejoice over that; yes and I will rejoice over it.

Store up no treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and rust corrode, where thieves break in and steal:

Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go and sell your property, give the money to the poor and you shall have treasure in heaven; then come and follow me."

So fares the man who lays up treasure for himself instead of gaining the riches of God."

Then you will be blessed; for as they have no means of repaying you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just."

for those of us whose eyes are on the unseen, not on the seen; for the seen is transient, the unseen eternal.

I know that if this earthly tent of mine is taken down, I get a home from God, made by no human hands, eternal in the heavens.

together with Christ he raised and seated us within the heavenly sphere in Christ Jesus,

due to the hope which is laid up for you in heaven. You heard of this hope originally in the message of the Truth, in that gospel

Since then you have been raised with Christ, aim at what is above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God;

for you did sympathize with the prisoners, and you took the confiscation of your own belongings cheerfully, conscious that elsewhere you had higher, you had lasting, possessions.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have been born anew to a life of hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Conversation

But the Jerusalem on high is free, and she is 'our' mother.

Thus you are strangers and foreigners no longer, you share the membership of the saints, you belong to God's own household,

You have come to mount Sion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to myriads of angels in festal gathering,

So he carried me off, rapt in the Spirit, to a huge, high mountain, where he showed me the City, the holy Jerusalem, descending from God out of heaven,

From

who said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up to heaven? This Jesus who has been taken from you into heaven will come back, just as you have seen him depart to heaven."

The Lord himself will descend from heaven with a loud summons, when the archangel calls and the trumpet of God sounds; the dead in Christ will rise first;

and repay you who are troubled (as well as us) with rest and relief, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven together with the angels of his power

Lo, he is coming on the clouds, to be seen by every eye, even by those who impaled him, and all the tribes of earth will wail because of him: even so, Amen.

We look

so that you may be transparent and no harm to anyone in view of the day of Christ,

Thus you lack no spiritual endowment during these days of waiting till our Lord Jesus Christ is revealed;

and to wait for the coming of his Son from heaven ??the Son whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who rescues us from the Wrath to come.

Now the crown of a good life awaits me, with which the Lord, that just Judge, will reward me on the great Day ??and not only me but all who have loved and longed for his appearance.

awaiting the blessed hope of the appearance of the Glory of the great God and of our Saviour Christ Jesus,

so Christ, after being once sacrificed to bear the sins of many, will appear again, not to deal with sin but for the saving of those who look out for him.

you who expect and hasten the advent of the Day of God, which dissolves the heavens in fire and makes the stars blaze and melt!

General references

(for we have no lasting city here below, we seek the City to come).