Philippians 3:20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 then? yet every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached: and in this I rejoice, yea and I will rejoice;

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust corrupts, and where thieves break through and steal:

Jesus replied, If thou wouldst be perfect, go, sell thy estate, and give it to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come and follow me.

So is he that heapeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich towards God.

because they have not wherewith to requite thee: for a recompense shall be given thee at the resurrection of the just.

for those, which are visible, are temporary, but the invisible are eternal.

For we know that if our earthly house, which is but as a tent, were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

for the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, of which ye have heard before in the word of truth, that is the gospel;

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God.

for ye sympathized with me in my bonds, and ye took joyfully the plundering of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy hath regenerated us to a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Conversation

But the Jerusalem above is represented by the free-woman, which is the mother of us all.

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the houshold of God;

but ye are come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,

And he carried me away in spirit to a great and high mountain, and he shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God:

From

who said, Ye men of Galilee, why do ye stand gazing up to heaven? This Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in the manner ye have seen Him going into heaven.

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with acclamation, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first;

and to you, who are in trouble, rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven,

Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye shall see Him, even they that pierced Him: and all the tribes of the earth shall lament before Him. Even so, Amen!

We look

that ye may try things that differ, that ye may be sincere and without offence until the day of Christ;

so that ye are deficient in no gift, expecting the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ:

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus who delivereth us from the wrath to come.

As to what remains, there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me in that day: and not to me only, but also to all those who have longed for his appearance.

looking for the blessed hope, and glorious appearance of the great God, and our Saviour, Jesus Christ:

so Christ, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear the second time without sin, to those who are waiting for Him, unto salvation.

expecting and hastening on the coming of the day of God, whereby the heavens being set on fire shall be dissolved, and the burning elements shall be melted.

General references

but are seeking that which is to come.