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18 For many, as I have often told you and now tell you even in tears, conduct themselves as enemies of the cross of Christ.(A) 19 Their end is destruction. Their God is their stomach; their glory is in their “shame.” Their minds are occupied with earthly things.(B) 20 But our citizenship[a] is in heaven, and from it we also await a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 3:20 Citizenship: Christians constitute a colony of heaven, as Philippi was a colonia of Rome (Acts 16:12). The hope Paul expresses involves the final coming of Christ, not a status already attained, such as the opponents claim.

18 For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears,(A) many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.(B) 19 Their destiny(C) is destruction, their god is their stomach,(D) and their glory is in their shame.(E) Their mind is set on earthly things.(F) 20 But our citizenship(G) is in heaven.(H) And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,(I)

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