Philippians 3:20

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

But oure conversacion is in heven from whence we loke for a saveour enen the LORde Iesus 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 therfore ye are no moare straugers and foreners: but citesyns with the saynctes and of the housholde of god:
• Col 3:1-3 : 1 If ye be then rysen agayne with christ seke those thynges which are above where Christ sitteth on the right honde of god. 2 Set youre affeccion on thynges yt are above and not on thinges which are on ye erth. 3 For ye are deed and youre lyfe is hid with Christ in god.
• Heb 12:22 : 22 But ye are come vnto the moute Sion and to the citie of the livinge god the celestiall Ierusalem: and to an innumerable sight of angels
• 2 Cor 4:18-5:1 : 18 vnto vs whill we loke not on the thynges which are sene but on ye thynges which are not sene. For thinges which are sene are temporall: but thynges which are not sene are eternall 1 We knowe suerly yf oure erthy mancion wherin we now dwell were destroyed that we have a bildinge ordeyned of god an habitacion not made with hondes but eternall in heve.
• Eph 2:6 : 6 and hath raysed vs vp together and made vs sitte together in hevenly thynges thorow Christ Iesus
• 1 Cor 1:7 : 7 so that ye are behynde in no gyft and wayte for the apperynge of oure LORde Iesus Christ
• Col 1:5 : 5 for the hopes sake which is layde vp in store for you in heven of which hope ye have herde before by ye true worde of the gospe
• 1 Pet 1:3-4 : 3 Blessed be God ye father of oure Lorde Iesus Christ which thorow is aboundant mercie begat vs agayne vnto a lively hope by the resurreccion of Iesus Christ fro deeth 4 to enioye an inheritaunce immortall and vndefiled and that purifieth not reserved in heven for you
• 2 Pet 3:12-14 : 12 lokynge for and hastynge vnto the commynge of the daye of God in which the hevens shall perisshe with fyre and the elementes shalbe consumed with heate. 13 Neverthelesse we loke for a newe heven and a newe erth accordynge to his promes where in dwelleth rightewesnes. 14 Wherfore derly beloved seynge yt ye loke for soche thynges be diliget that ye maye be founde of him in peace wt out spotte and vndefiled
• 2 Tim 4:8 : 8 From hence forth is layde vp for me a croune of rightewesnes which the LORde that is a righteous iudge shall geve me at that daye: not to me only but vnto all them that love his commynge.
• 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 Neverthelesse we are of good comforte and had lever to be absent from the body and to be present with the LORde.
• Gal 4:26 : 26 But Ierusalem which is above is fre: which is the mother of vs all.
• Titus 2:13 : 13 lokinge for that blessed hope and glorious apperenge of ye myghty god and of oure savioure Iesu Chris
• 1 Thess 1:10 : 10 and for to loke for his sonne from heven whom he raysed from deeth: I mean Iesus which delivereth vs from wrath to come.
• Phil 1:18-21 : 18 What then? So that Christ be preached all maner wayes whether it be by occasion or of true meaninge I therin ioye: ye and will ioye. 19 For I knowe that this shall chaunce to my salvacion thorow youre prayer and ministringe of the sprete of Iesu Christ 20 as I hertely loke for and hope that in nothinge I shalbe ashamed: but that with all confidence as all wayes in tymes past even so now Christ shalbe magnified in my body whether it be thorowe lyfe or els deeth. 21 For Christ is to me lyfe and deeth is to me a vauntage.
• Heb 10:34-35 : 34 For ye suffered also with my bondes and toke a worth the spoylynge of youre goodes and that with gladnes knowynge in youre selves how that ye had in heven a better and an endurynge substaunc 35 Cast not awaye therfore youre confidence which hath great rewarde to recopence.
• 2 Thess 1:7-8 : 7 and to you which are troubled rest with vs when the LORde Iesus shall shewe him silfe from heven with his myghty angels 8 in flammynge fyre rendrynge vengeaunce vnto them that knowe not God and to them that obeye not vnto the gospell of oure Lorde Iesus Christ
• Phil 1:10 : 10 that ye myght accepte thinges most excellent that ye myght be pure and soche as shuld hurte no manes conscience vntyll the daye of Christ
• Heb 9:28 : 28 so Christ was once offered to take awaye the synnes of many and vnto them that loke for him shall he appeare agayne without synne vnto saluacion.
• Matt 6:19-21 : 19 Se that ye gaddre you not treasure vpon ye erth where rust and mothes corrupte and where theves breake through and steale. 20 But gaddre ye treasure togeder in heve where nether rust nor mothes corrupte and where theves nether breake vp nor yet steale. 21 For where soever youre treasure ys there will youre hertes be also.
• Matt 19:21 : 21 And Iesus sayde vnto him yf thou wylt be perfecte goo and sell that thou hast and geve it to the povre and thou shalt have treasure in heven and come and folowe me.
• Luke 12:32-34 : 32 Feare not litell floocke for it is youre fathers pleasure to geve you a kingdome. 33 Sell that ye have and geve almes. And make you bagges which wexe not olde and treasure that fayleth not in heaven where noo these commeth nether moth corrupteth. 34 For where youre treasure is there will youre hertes be also.
• Luke 14:14 : 14 and thou shalt be happy for they cannot recompence the. But thou shalt be recompensed at the resurreccion of the iuste men.
• Acts 1:11 : 11 which also sayde: ye men of Galile why stonde ye gasinge vp into heave? This same Iesus which is taken vp fro you in to heaven shall so come even as ye haue sene him goo into heaven.
• 1 Thess 4:16 : 16 For the Lorde him selfe shall descende fro heve with a showte and the voyce of the archangell and trompe of God. And the deed in Christe shall aryse fyrst:
• Rev 1:7 : 7 Beholde he commeth with cloudes and all eyes shall se him: and they also which peersed him. And all kinredes of ye erth shall wayle. Even so. Amen.
• Rev 21:10-27 : 10 And he caryed me awaye in the sprete to a grett and an hye mountayne and he shewed me the grett cite holy Ierusalem descendinge out of heven fro God 11 havynge the brightnes of God. And her shynynge was lyke vnto a stone moste precious even a Iaspar cleare as cristall: 12 and had walles grett and hye and had xii gates and at the gates xii. angels: and names written which are the xii. trybes of Israell: 13 on the est parte iii gatis and on the north syde iii gates and to wardes the south iii gates and from the west iii gates: 14 and the wall of the cite had xii foundacions and in them the names of the lambes.xii. Apostles. 15 And he that talked with me had a golden read to measure the cite with all and the gates therof and the wall therof. 16 And the cite was bylt iiii. square and the length was as large as the bredth of it and he measured the cite with the rede.xii M. fur longes: and the lenght and the bredth and ye heyth of it were equall. 17 And he measured the wall therof. an cxliiii. cubittes: the measure that ye angell had was after the measure that man vseth. 18 And the byldinge of the wall of it was of iaspar. And the cite was pure gold lyke vnto cleare glass 19 and the foundacions of the wall of ye cite was garnisshed with all maner of precious stones The fyrste foundacion was iaspar the seconde saphyre the thyrde a calcedony the fourth an emeralde: 20 the fyft sardonix: the sixt sardeos: the seventh crysolite the ayght berall: the nynth a topas: the tenth a crysoprasos: the eleventh a iacyncte: the twelfe an amatist. 21 The xii. gates were xii pearles every gate was of one pearle and the strete of the cite was pure golde as thorowe shynynge glasse. 22 And there was no temple therin. For the lord god allmyghty and the lambe are 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 dyd light it: and the lambe was the light of it. 24 And the people which are saved shall walke in the light of it: and the kynges of the erth shall brynge their glory vnto it. 25 And ye gates of it are not shut by daye. For there shalbe no nyght there. 27 And there shall entre into it none vnclene thynge: nether what soever worketh abhominacion: or maketh lyes: but they only which are wrytten in the lambes boke of lyfe.