Philippians 3:20

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

📖 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 therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
• Col 3:1-3 : 1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
• Heb 12:22 : 22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
• 2 Cor 4:18-5:1 : 18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. 1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
• Eph 2:6 : 6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
• 1 Cor 1:7 : 7 So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:
• 1 Pet 1:3-4 : 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
• 2 Pet 3:12-14 : 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. 14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
• Col 1:5 : 5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
• 2 Tim 4:8 : 8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
• 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
• Gal 4:26 : 26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
• Phil 1:18-21 : 18 What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. 19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, 20 According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
• Ps 17:15 : 15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
• Titus 2:13 : 13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
• Heb 10:34-35 : 34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. 35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
• 1 Thess 1:10 : 10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
• 2 Thess 1:7-8 : 7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, 8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
• Heb 9:28 : 28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
• Ps 73:24-26 : 24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. 25 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. 26 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
• Prov 15:24 : 24 The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
• Isa 26:1-2 : 1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. 2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.
• Matt 6:19-21 : 19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
• Matt 19:21 : 21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
• Phil 1:10 : 10 That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;
• Ps 16:11 : 11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
• Luke 12:32-34 : 32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 33 Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth. 34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
• Luke 14:14 : 14 And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
• Acts 1:11 : 11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
• 1 Thess 4:16 : 16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
• Rev 1:7 : 7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
• Rev 21:10-27 : 10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a gat and high mountain, and shewed me that gat city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, 11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most pcious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; 12 And had a wall gat and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written theon, which a the names of the twelve tribes of the childn of Israel: 13 On the east the gates; on the north the gates; on the south the gates; and on the west the gates. 14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. 15 And he that talked with me had a golden ed to measu the city, and the gates theof, and the wall theof. 16 And the city lieth foursqua, and the length is as large as the badth: and he measud the city with the ed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the badth and the height of it a equal. 17 And he measud the wall theof, an hundd and forty and four cubits, according to the measu of a man, that is, of the angel. 18 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pu gold, like unto clear glass. 19 And the foundations of the wall of the city we garnished with all manner of pcious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphi; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; 20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst. 21 And the twelve gates we twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the stet of the city was pu gold, as it we transpant glass. 22 And I saw no temple thein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb a the temple of it. 23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light theof. 24 And the nations of them which a saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it. 25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for the shall be no night the. 26 And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. 27 And the shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which a written in the Lamb's book of life.