Philippians 3:20

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

For our citizenship is in the heavens, whence also a Saviour we await -- 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 Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,
• Col 3:1-3 : 1 If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, 2 the things above mind ye, not the things upon the earth, 3 for ye did die, and your life hath been hid with the Christ in God;
• Heb 12:22 : 22 But, ye came to Mount Zion, and to a city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of messengers,
• 2 Cor 4:18-5:1 : 18 we not looking to the things seen, but to the things not seen; for the things seen `are' temporary, but the things not seen `are' age-during. 1 For we have known that if our earthly house of the tabernacle may be thrown down, a building from God we have, an house not made with hands -- age-during -- in the heavens,
• Eph 2:6 : 6 and did raise `us' up together, and did seat `us' together in the heavenly `places' in Christ Jesus,
• 1 Cor 1:7 : 7 so that ye are not behind in any gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
• 1 Pet 1:3-4 : 3 Blessed `is' the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead, 4 to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,
• 2 Pet 3:12-14 : 12 waiting for and hasting to the presence of the day of God, by which the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements with burning heat shall melt; 13 and for new heavens and a new earth according to His promise we do wait, in which righteousness doth dwell; 14 wherefore, beloved, these things waiting for, be diligent, spotless and unblameable, by Him to be found in peace,
• Col 1:5 : 5 because of the hope that is laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard of before in the word of the truth of the good news,
• 2 Tim 4:8 : 8 henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of the righteousness that the Lord -- the Righteous Judge -- shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving his manifestation.
• 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
• Gal 4:26 : 26 and the Jerusalem above is the free-woman, which is mother of us all,
• Phil 1:18-21 : 18 what then? in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed -- and in this I rejoice, yea, and shall rejoice. 19 For I have known that this shall fall out to me for salvation, through your supplication, and the supply of the Spirit of Christ Jesus, 20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, and in all freedom, as always, also now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death, 21 for to me to live `is' Christ, and to die gain.
• Ps 17:15 : 15 I -- in righteousness, I see Thy face; I am satisfied, in awaking, `with' Thy form!
• Titus 2:13 : 13 waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ,
• Heb 10:34-35 : 34 for also with my bonds ye sympathised, and the robbery of your goods with joy ye did receive, knowing that ye have in yourselves a better substance in the heavens, and an enduring one. 35 Ye may not cast away, then, your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward,
• 1 Thess 1:10 : 10 and to wait for His Son from the heavens, whom He did raise out of the dead -- Jesus, who is rescuing us from the anger that is coming.
• 2 Thess 1:7-8 : 7 and to you who are troubled -- rest with us in the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with messengers of his power, 8 in flaming fire, giving vengeance to those not knowing God, and to those not obeying the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ;
• Heb 9:28 : 28 so also the Christ, once having been offered to bear the sins of many, a second time, apart from a sin-offering, shall appear, to those waiting for him -- to salvation!
• Ps 73:24-26 : 24 With Thy counsel Thou dost lead me, And after honour dost receive me. 25 Whom have I in the heavens? And with Thee none I have desired in earth. 26 Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion `is' God to the age.
• Prov 15:24 : 24 A path of life `is' on high for the wise, To turn aside from Sheol beneath.
• Isa 26:1-2 : 1 In that day sung is this song in the land of Judah: `We have a strong city, Salvation He doth make walls and bulwark. 2 Open ye the gates, that enter may a righteous nation, Preserving stedfastness.
• Matt 6:19-21 : 19 `Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal, 20 but treasure up to yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth disfigure, and where thieves do not break through nor steal, 21 for where your treasure is, there will be also your heart.
• Matt 19:21 : 21 Jesus said to him, `If thou dost will to be perfect, go away, sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come, follow me.'
• Phil 1:10 : 10 for your proving the things that differ, that ye may be pure and offenceless -- to a day of Christ,
• Ps 16:11 : 11 Thou causest me to know the path of life; Fulness of joys `is' with Thy presence, Pleasant things by Thy right hand for ever!
• Luke 12:32-34 : 32 `Fear not, little flock, because your Father did delight to give you the reign; 33 sell your goods, and give alms, make to yourselves bags that become not old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where thief doth not come near, nor moth destroy; 34 for where your treasure is, there also your heart will be.
• Luke 14:14 : 14 and happy thou shalt be, because they have not to recompense thee, for it shall be recompensed to thee in the rising again of the righteous.'
• Acts 1:11 : 11 who also said, `Men, Galileans, why do ye stand gazing into the heaven? this Jesus who was received up from you into the heaven, shall so come in what manner ye saw him going on to the heaven.'
• 1 Thess 4:16 : 16 because the Lord himself, in a shout, in the voice of a chief-messenger, and in the trump of God, shall come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first,
• Rev 1:7 : 7 Lo, he doth come with the clouds, and see him shall every eye, even those who did pierce him, and wail because of him shall all the tribes of the land. Yes! Amen!
• Rev 21:10-27 : 10 and he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and did shew to me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven from God, 11 having the glory of God, and her light `is' like a stone most precious, as a jasper stone clear as crystal, 12 having also a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve messengers, and names written thereon, which are `those' of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel, 13 at the east three gates, at the north three gates, at the south three gates, at the west three gates; 14 and the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. 15 And he who is speaking with me had a golden reed, that he may measure the city, and its gates, and its wall; 16 and the city lieth square, and the length of it is as great as the breadth; and he did measure the city with the reed -- furlongs twelve thousand; the length, and the breadth, and the height, of it are equal; 17 and he measured its wall, an hundred forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, that is, of the messenger; 18 and the building of its wall was jasper, and the city `is' pure gold -- like to pure glass; 19 and the foundations of the wall of the city with every precious stone have been adorned; the first foundation jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald; 20 the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprasus; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst. 21 And the twelve gates `are' twelve pearls, each several one of the gates was of one pearl; and the broad-place of the city `is' pure gold -- as transparent glass. 22 And a sanctuary I did not see in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, is its sanctuary, and the Lamb, 23 and the city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, that they may shine in it; for the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamp of it `is' the Lamb; 24 and the nations of the saved in its light shall walk, and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it, 25 and its gates shall not at all be shut by day, for night shall not be there; 26 and they shall bring the glory and the honour of the nations into it; 27 and there may not at all enter into it any thing defiling and doing abomination, and a lie, but -- those written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb.