Parallel Verses

Godbey New Testament

For our citizenship is in the heavens; whence we are indeed looking for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

Our citizenship, however, is in heaven, and it is from there that we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus, the Messiah.

A Conservative Version

For our citizenship exists in the heavens, from which also we await a Savior, Lord Jesus Christ,

American Standard Version

For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

Amplified

But [we are different, because] our citizenship is in heaven. And from there we eagerly await [the coming of] the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

An Understandable Version

But we are [really] citizens of heaven and we are waiting for a Savior [to return] from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Anderson New Testament

But our citizenship is in heaven, whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Bible in Basic English

For our country is in heaven; from where the Saviour for whom we are waiting will come, even the Lord Jesus Christ:

Common New Testament

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

Daniel Mace New Testament

but we are the denisons of heaven, from whence we expect the saviour Jesus Christ our Lord.

Darby Translation

for our commonwealth has its existence in the heavens, from which also we await the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour,

Goodspeed New Testament

But the commonwealth to which we belong is in heaven, and from it we are eagerly awaiting the coming of a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.

John Wesley New Testament

who mind earthly things) For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Julia Smith Translation

For our citizenship is in the heavens; from whence we also expect the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

King James 2000

For our citizenship is in heaven; from which also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ:

Lexham Expanded Bible

For our commonwealth exists in heaven, from which also we eagerly await a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Modern King James verseion

For our citizenship is in Heaven, from which also we are looking for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

But our conversation is in heaven, from whence we look for a saviour, even the Lord Jesus Christ,

Moffatt New Testament

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

Montgomery New Testament

But commonwealth is in heaven; and it is from heaven also that we are anxiously awaiting a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,

NET Bible

But our citizenship is in heaven -- and we also await a savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

New Heart English Bible

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

Noyes New Testament

For the country of which we are citizens is heaven, whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Sawyer New Testament

But our kingdom is in heaven, from which also we expect the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,

The Emphasized Bible

For, our citizenship, in the heavens, hath its rise; wherefore, a Saviour also, do we ardently await, - The Lord Jesus Christ, -

Thomas Haweis New Testament

But our conversation is in heaven as its citizens, from whence also we are expecting the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Twentieth Century New Testament

But the State of which we are citizens is in Heaven; and it is from Heaven that we are eagerly looking for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Webster

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

Weymouth New Testament

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,

Williams New Testament

But we are citizens of the republic in heaven, from which we are eagerly waiting for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.

World English Bible

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

Worrell New Testament

For our citizenship is in Heaven, whence also we are waiting for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

Worsley New Testament

from whence also we expect the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ: who will change our vile body,

Youngs Literal Translation

For our citizenship is in the heavens, whence also a Saviour we await -- the Lord Jesus Christ --

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

our
ἡμῶν 
hemon 
our, us, we, not tr,
Usage: 388

πολίτευμα 
Politeuma 
Usage: 1

is
ὑπάρχω 
Huparcho 
be, have, live, after, not tr
Usage: 41

in
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

οὐρανός 
Ouranos 
Usage: 156

ἐκ ἐξ 
Ek 
of, from, out of, by, on, with,
Usage: 709

ὅς ἥ ὅ 
Hos 
Usage: 980


and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

we look
ἀπεκδέχομαι 
Apekdechomai 
Usage: 7

for the Saviour
σωτήρ 
Soter 
Usage: 24

the Lord
κύριος 
Kurios 
Usage: 643

Ἰησοῦς 
Iesous 
Usage: 969

Devotionals

Devotionals about Philippians 3:20

Devotionals containing Philippians 3:20

Images Philippians 3:20

Prayers for Philippians 3:20

Context Readings

Imitate Me

19 whose end is destruction, whose God is their stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. 20 For our citizenship is in the heavens; whence we are indeed looking for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: 21 who will transform the body of our humility, similitudinous to the body of his own glory, according to the energy by which he is able indeed to subdue all things to himself.



Cross References

Ephesians 2:19

Then therefore you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and members of the household of God,

1 Corinthians 1:7

so that you are deficient in no spiritual gift; awaiting the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Acts 1:11

Ye Galilean men, why stand you looking up into the heaven? this same Jesus, the One having been received up into the heaven, will so come in the manner in which you saw Him going up into the heaven.

Hebrews 12:22

but you have come to mount Zion, and to the heavenly Jerusalem, to the city of the living God, and to myriads of angels,

Matthew 6:19-21

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

Matthew 19:21

Jesus said to him, If you wish to be perfect, go, sell your possessions, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

Luke 12:21

So is every one laying up treasure for himself, and not rich toward God.

Luke 12:32-34

Fear not, little flock; because your Father is well pleased to give you the kingdom.

Luke 14:14

and thou shalt be happy; because they have nothing with which to recompense thee: and it shall be recompensed unto thee in the resurrection of the just.

2 Corinthians 4:18-1

we not looking at the things which are visible, but the things which are invisible; for the visible things are temporary, but the invisible things are eternal.

2 Corinthians 5:8

but we are confident and delighted rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord.

Ephesians 2:6

and he has raised you up, and caused you to sit in the heavenlies, in Christ Jesus:

Philippians 1:10

in order that you may distinguish those things which differ; that you may be pure and without offence in the day of Christ;

Philippians 1:18-21

For what is it? moreover that in every place, whether in pretext or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and I rejoice in this, yes, and I will rejoice.

Colossians 1:5

on account of the hope which awaits you in the heavens, which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,

Colossians 3:1-3

If then ye are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting on the right hand of God;

1 Thessalonians 1:10

and to await his Son out of the heavens, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus the one delivering us from the wrath to come.

1 Thessalonians 4:16

because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first;

2 Thessalonians 1:7-8

and to you who are troubled, rest with us, in the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power

2 Timothy 4:8

finally there is a crown of righteousness laid up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me in that day: not only to me, but to all those who with divine love, do love his appearing.

Titus 2:13

looking for the blessed hope even the appearing of the glory of our great God and our Saviour Christ Jesus;

Hebrews 9:28

so also Christ, having once been offered up to bear away the sins of many, will appear the second time apart from sin unto salvation to those expecting him.

Hebrews 10:34-35

For you suffered along with the prisoners, and received with joy the spoliation of your goods, knowing that you have a better and abiding possession.

1 Peter 1:3-4

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the one having according to his great mercy begotten us again into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

2 Peter 3:12-14

looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens being on fire will be dissolved, and the elements being scorched up are melted?

Revelation 1:7

Behold, he is coming with clouds; and every eye shall behold him, even those who pierced him, and all the tribes of the earth will wail at him; yes, Amen.

Revelation 21:10-27

And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven from God,

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