Philippians 3:20

Coverdale Bible (1535)

But oure conuersacion is in heauen, from whence we loke for the Sauioure Iesu Christ ye LORDE,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἡμῶν γὰρ τὸ πολίτευμα ἐν οὐρανοῖς ὑπάρχει· ἐξ οὗ καὶ Σωτῆρα ἀπεκδεχόμεθα, Κύριον Ἰησοῦν Χριστόν:

Transliteration

Our gar the politeuma in ouranois hyparchei; from which also Sōtēra apekdechometha, Kyrion Iēsoun Christon:

Grammar Details

• *gar*: postpositive conjunction - for
• *politeuma*: nominative, neuter, singular - citizenship/commonwealth
• *ouranois*: dative, masculine, plural - heavens
• *hyparchei*: indicative, present, active, 3rd person singular - exists/is
• *Sōtēra*: accusative, masculine, singular - Savior
• *apekdechometha*: indicative, present, middle, 1st person plural - we eagerly await
• *Kyrion*: accusative, masculine, singular - Lord
• *Iēsoun*: accusative, masculine, singular - Jesus
• *Christon*: accusative, masculine, singular - Christ

Word Meanings

• *politeuma*: citizenship/commonwealth/colony/state
• *hyparchei*: exists/is/belongs
• *apekdechometha*: eagerly await/expect eagerly

Referenced Verses

• Eph 2:19 : 19 Now therfore ye are nomore gestes and straungers, but citesins with the sayntes, & of the housholde of God,
• Col 3:1-3 : 1 Yf ye be rysen now with Christ, seke those thinges then which are aboue where Christ is, syttinge on the righte hande of God. 2 Set youre mynde on the thinges which are aboue, not on ye thinges that are vpon earth. 3 For ye are deed, and youre life is hyd with Christ in God.
• Heb 12:22 : 22 But ye are come to the mount Sion, and to the cite of the lyuynge God, to the celestiall Ierusalem, and to the multitude of many thousande angels,
• 2 Cor 4:18-5:1 : 18 vnto vs, which loke not on the thinges that are sene, but on them which are not sene. For ye thinges which are sene, are temporall: but the thinges that are not sene, are eternall. 1 We knowe surely, yt yf oure earthy house of this dwellynge were destroyed, we haue a buyldynge ordeyned of God, an house not made with handes, but euerlastynge in heauen.
• Eph 2:6 : 6 and hath raysed vs vp with him, and set vs with him in heauely thinges thorow Christ Iesus,
• 1 Cor 1:7 : 7 so that ye wante nothinge in eny gifte, and wayte but for the appearinge of oure LORDE Iesus Christ:
• 1 Pet 1:3-4 : 3 Blessed be God and the father of oure LORDE Iesus Christ, which acordinge to his greate mercy hath begotten vs agayne vnto a lyuely hope by the resurreccion of Iesus Christ from the deed, 4 to an vncorruptible and vndefyled inheritaunce, which neuer shal fade awaye, but is reserued in heauen for you
• 2 Pet 3:12-14 : 12 lokynge for and hastynge vnto the commynge of the LORDE? In the which the heauens shal perishe with fyre, and the elementes shal melt with heate. 13 Neuertheles we loke for a new heauen and a new earth (acordynge to his promes) wherin dwelleth righteousnes. 14 Wherfore dearly beloued, seynge that ye loke for soch thinges, be diligent, yt ye maye be founde before him in peace without spot and vndefyled:
• Col 1:5 : 5 for ye hopes sake which is layed vp in stoare for you in heauen: of the which ye haue herde before by the worde of trueth in the Gospell,
• 2 Tim 4:8 : 8 From hence forth there is layed vp for me a crowne of righteousnes, which the LORDE the righteous iudge shal geue me in yt daye: Howbeit not vnto me onely, but vnto all them that loue his comynge.
• 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 Neuertheles we are of good comforte, and had leuer to be absent from the body, & to be at home with the LORDE.
• Gal 4:26 : 26 But Ierusalem that is aboue, is the fre woman, which is the mother of vs all.
• Phil 1:18-21 : 18 What then? So that Christ be preached all maner of wayes (whether it be done by occasion or of true meaninge) I reioyce therin, and wil reioyce. 19 For I knowe that the same shal chaunce to my saluacion, thorow youre prayer and mynistrynge of the sprete of Iesu Christ, 20 as I loke for and hope, that in nothinge I shalbe ashamed: but yt with all cofidence (as allwayes in tymes past, eue so now) Christ shalbe magnified in my body whether it be thorow life or thorow death. 21 For Christ is to me life, & death is to me auautage.
• Ps 17:15 : 15 They haue children at their desyre, and leaue the reste of their substauce for their babes. But as for me, I will beholde thy presence in rightuousnes: and when thy glory appeareth, I shal be satisfied.
• Titus 2:13 : 13 lokynge for that blessed hope and appearynge of the glory of ye greate God and of oure Sauioure Iesu Christ:
• Heb 10:34-35 : 34 For ye haue suffred with my bodes, and toke a worth ye spoylinge of youre goodes, and that with gladnes, knowynge in youre selues, how that ye haue in heauen a better & an enduringe substaunce. 35 Cast not awaye therfore yor confidence, which hath so greate a rewarde.
• 1 Thess 1:10 : 10 and to loke for his sonne from heaue: whom he raysed vp from the deed, euen Iesus, which hath delyuered vs fro the wrath to come.
• 2 Thess 1:7-8 : 7 but vnto you which are troubled, rest with vs, wha the LORDE Iesus shal shewe himselfe from heauen, with the angels of his power, 8 and with flammynge fyre, to geue vengeauce vnto them that knowe not God, and to them that obeye not the Gospell of oure LORDE Iesus Christ.
• Heb 9:28 : 28 so Christ was once offred, to take awaye the synnes of many. And vnto them that loke for him, shal he appeare agayne without synne vnto saluacion.
• Ps 73:24-26 : 24 Thou ledest me with thy coucel, and afterwarde receauest me vnto glory. 25 O what is there prepared for me in heauen? there is nothinge vpo earth, that I desyre in comparison of the. 26 My flesh and my herte fayleth, but God is the strength of my hert, and my porcion for euer.
• Prov 15:24 : 24 The waye of life ledeth vnto heaue, yt a man shulde bewarre of hell beneth.
• Isa 26:1-2 : 1 Then shal this songe be sunge in the londe of Iuda: We haue a stroge citie, the walles & the ordinauce shal kepe vs. 2 Ope ye gates, yt the good people maye go in, which laboureth for the treuth.
• Matt 6:19-21 : 19 Se that ye gather you not treasure vpon the earth, where rust and mothes corrupte, and where theues breake through and steale. 20 But gather you treasure together in heauen, where nether rust nor mothes corrupte, and where theues nether breake vp nor yet steale. 21 For where youre treasure is, there is youre herte also.
• Matt 19:21 : 21 Iesus sayde vnto him: Yf thou wilt be perfecte, go thy waye and sell that thou hast, & geue it vnto the poore, and thou shalt haue a treasure in heauen, and come and folowe me.
• Phil 1:10 : 10 yt ye maye proue what is best, that ye maye be pure, & soch as hurte no mans conscience, vnto the daye of Christ:
• Ps 16:11 : 11 For why? thou shalt not leaue my soule in hell, nether shalt thou suffre thy saynte to se corrupcion. Thou hast shewed me the wayes off life: thou shalt make me full of ioye wt thy countenaunce. At thy right hande there is pleasure and ioye for euermore.
• Luke 12:32-34 : 32 Feare not thou litle flocke, for it is youre fathers pleasure to geue you the kyngdome. 33 Sell that ye haue, and geue almesse. Make you bagges, which waxe not olde: euen a treasure that neuer fayleth in heauen, where no thefe commeth, and no moth corruppeth: 34 for where youre treasure is, there wil youre hert be also.
• Luke 14:14 : 14 then art thou blessed, for they can not recompece ye. But it shalbe recompensed the in the resurreccion of the righteous.
• Acts 1:11 : 11 which also sayde: Ye men of Galile, Why stonde ye gasynge vp in to heauen? This Iesus which is take vp from you in to heauen shal come euen so as ye haue sene him go in to heauen.
• 1 Thess 4:16 : 16 For the LORDE himselfe shal come downe fro heauen with a shoute and voyce of ye Archangell and with the trompe of God, and the deed in Christ shal aryse first:
• Rev 1:7 : 7 Beholde, he commeth with cloudes, and all eyes shall se him: & they also which peersed him. And all kinredes of the earth shal wayle. Euen so. Amen.
• Rev 21:10-27 : 10 And he caryed me awaye in ye sprete to a greate and an hye moutayne, and he shewed me the greate cite, holy Ierusale descendinge out of heauen from God, 11 hauynge the brightnes of God. And her shynynge was lyke vnto a stone most precious, euen a Iaspar cleare as cristall: 12 & had greate and hye walles, and had twolue gates, and at ye gates twolue angels: and names wrytten, which are the twolue trybes of Israel: 13 on the est parte thre gates, and on the north syde thre gates, and towarde the south thre gates, and from the west thre gates: 14 and the wall of the cite had twolue foundacios, and in them the names of the lambes twolue Apostles. 15 And he that talked with me, had a golden rede to measure the cite with all, and the gates therof, and the wall therof. 16 And the cite was bylt foure square, and the length was as large as the bredth of it, and he measured the cite with the rede twolue M. furlonges: and the length and the bredth, and ye heyth of it, were equall. 17 And he measured the wall therof, an cxliiij. cubittes, after ye measure of a man, which the angel had. 18 And the buyldinge of the wall of it was of Iaspar. And the cite was of pure golde, like vnto cleare glasse: 19 and ye foundacios of the walles and of ye cite were garnysshed with all maner of precious stones. The fyrst foundacion was a Iasper, the seconde a Saphyre, ye thyrde a Calcedony, the fourth a Smaragde: 20 the fyft a Sardonix: the sixt a Sardeos: the seuenth a Crysolite, the eyght berall: the nynth a Topas: the tenth a Crysoprasos: the eleueth a Iacyncte: the twelfte an Amatist. 21 And the twolue gates were twolue pearles, and euery gate was of one pearle, and ye strete of the cite was pure golde, as a thoroweshyninge glasse. 22 And I sawe no temple therin. For the LORDE God allmighty and the lambe is the temple of it, 23 and the cite hath no nede of the Sonne, nether of the mone to lyghten it. For the bryghtnes of God doth light it: and the lambe is the lyght of it. 24 And ye people which are saued, shal walke in the light of it: and the kynges of the earth shal brynge their glory vnto it. 25 And the gates of it shal not be shut by daye. For there shalbe no nyght there. 26 (Omitted Text) 27 And there shal entre in to it none vncleane thinge: nether what soeuer worketh abhominacion: or maketh lyes: but they which are wrytten in the lambes boke of life.