Philippians 3:21 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Philippians 3:17-21

He closes the chapter with warnings and exhortations. I. He warns them against following the examples of seducers and evil teachers (Phil. 3:18, 19): Many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ. Observe, 1. There are many called by Christ's name who are enemies to Christ's cross, and the design and intention of it. Their walk is a surer evidence what they are than their profession. By their fruits you shall know them,... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Philippians 3:17-21

3:17-21 Brothers, unite in imitating me, and keep your gaze on those who live, as you have seen us as an example. For there are many who behave in such a way--I have often spoken to you about them, and I do so now with tears--that they are enemies of the Cross of Christ. Their end is destruction: their god is their belly; that in which they glory is their shame. Men whose whole minds are earthbound! But our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly await the Lord Jesus Christ as... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Philippians 3:21

Who shall change our vile body ,.... Which is defiled with sin, attended with frailty, and is mortal; and being dead, is sown and laid in the grave in corruption, weakness, and dishonour: in the Greek text it is, "the body of our humility"; sin has subjected the body to weakness, mortality, and death; and death brings it into a very low estate indeed, which is very humbling and mortifying to the pride and vanity man: now this vile body, in the resurrection morn, shall be stripped of all its... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Philippians 3:21

Who shall change our vile body - Ὁς μετασχηματισει το σωμα της ταπεινωσες ἡμων· Who will refashion, or alter the fashion and condition of, the body of our humiliation; this body that is dead - adjudged to death because of sin, and must be putrefied, dissolved, and decomposed. That it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body - Εις το γενεσθαι αυτο συμμορφον τῳ σωματι της δοξης αυτου· That it may bear a similar form to the body of his glory. That is: the bodies of true believers... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Philippians 3:21

Verse 21 21Who will change By this argument he stirs up the Philippians still farther to lift up their minds to heaven, and be wholly attached to Christ — because this body which we carry about with us is not an everlasting abode, but a frail tabernacle, which will in a short time be reduced to nothing. Besides, it is liable to so many miseries, and so many dishonorable infirmities, that it may justly be spoken of as vile and full of ignominy. Whence, then, is its restoration to be hoped for?... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Philippians 3:17-21

Celestial citizenship. Paul, having urged the duty of forgetting the things behind, now speaks of his own example still more pointedly. He has been minding this rule and walking before men as an illustration of its power. And in this occupation with the future his idea has been that he is a citizen of heaven, and is conducting himself daily as one who belongs to that better country. But, while advancing to the statement of this celestial citizenship, he pauses parenthetically over the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Philippians 3:17-21

Contrasted character's and destinies. I. WHOM TO LOOK TO . "Brethren, be ye imitators together of me, and mark them which so walk even as ye have us for an ensample." There was no assumption in Paul putting himself before the Philippians for their imitation. He was simply proceeding on what belonged to the relation subsisting between them. It devolved on Timothy to be an example to believers in the various places where he labored in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Philippians 3:20-21

The grounds for following St. Paul and other holy men. I. Our conservation is in heaven. The false brethren mirth earthly things; follow us. 1 . Our commonwealth is in heaven ; we are citizens of the heavenly country. Here we are citizens of this realm of England; we have our sovereign, our magistrates, our fellow-subjects, our duties, our privileges. It is a shadow of heavenly things. The heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God , is our true home, our continuing... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Philippians 3:20-21

The heavenly citizenship and its blessed expectations. The apostle seems to say that these souls, with their earthly instincts, can have no fellowship with us; for we are citizens of a heavenly state. "For our citizenship is even now in heaven." I. THE HEAVENLY CITIZENSHIP . 1 . Consider its source. It comes, not by birth or manumission, but by the ransom-price of Jesus Christ. It is in Christ we become "fellow-citizens of the saints and of the household of God" ( ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Philippians 3:20-21

The blessedness of the Christly. "For our conversation [citizenship] is in heaven; from whence also we look for the [a] Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, [who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation that it may be conformed to the body of his glory] according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue [subject] all things unto himself." The word πολίτευμα which occurs nowhere else in the... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Philippians 3:17-21

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Philippians 3:17-21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Philippians 3:21

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Philippians 3:21

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Philippians 3:21

The Pulpit Commentary - Philippians 3:17-21

The Pulpit Commentary - Philippians 3:17-21

The Pulpit Commentary - Philippians 3:20-21

The Pulpit Commentary - Philippians 3:20-21

The Pulpit Commentary - Philippians 3:20-21

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