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Philippians 3:20

James Moffatt - New Testament

But we are a colony of heaven, and we wait for the Saviour who comes from heaven, the Lord Jesus Christ,

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Thus you are strangers and foreigners no longer, you share the membership of the saints, you belong to God's own household,

for those of us whose eyes are on the unseen, not on the seen; for the seen is transient, the unseen eternal.

You have come to mount Sion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to myriads of angels in festal gathering,

due to the hope which is laid up for you in heaven. You heard of this hope originally in the message of the Truth, in that gospel

together with Christ he raised and seated us within the heavenly sphere in Christ Jesus,

and in this confidence I would fain get away from the body and reside with the Lord.

Now the crown of a good life awaits me, with which the Lord, that just Judge, will reward me on the great Day — and not only me but all who have loved and longed for his appearance.

and to wait for the coming of his Son from heaven — the Son whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who rescues us from the Wrath to come.

so Christ, after being once sacrificed to bear the sins of many, will appear again, not to deal with sin but for the saving of those who look out for him.

But the Jerusalem on high is free, and she is 'our' mother.

awaiting the blessed hope of the appearance of the Glory of the great God and of our Saviour Christ Jesus,

Thus you lack no spiritual endowment during these days of waiting till our Lord Jesus Christ is revealed;

who said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up to heaven? This Jesus who has been taken from you into heaven will come back, just as you have seen him depart to heaven."

Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go and sell your property, give the money to the poor and you shall have treasure in heaven; then come and follow me."

The Lord himself will descend from heaven with a loud summons, when the archangel calls and the trumpet of God sounds; the dead in Christ will rise first;

Then you will be blessed; for as they have no means of repaying you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just."

Lo, he is coming on the clouds, to be seen by every eye, even by those who impaled him, and all the tribes of earth will wail because of him: even so, Amen.

so that you may be transparent and no harm to anyone in view of the day of Christ,

So fares the man who lays up treasure for himself instead of gaining the riches of God."

As Man the material is, so are the material; as Man the heavenly is, so are the heavenly.

Only, do lead a life that is worthy of the gospel of Christ. Whether I come and see you or only hear of you in absence, let me know you are standing firm in a common spirit, fighting side by side like one man for the faith of the gospel.




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