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Popular Bible Verses about Citizenship

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Ephesians 2:19

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Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God's people and also members of his household NIV
Therefore you are no longer outsiders (exiles, migrants, and aliens, excluded from the rights of citizens), but you now share citizenship with the saints (God's own people, consecrated and set apart for Himself); and you belong to God's [own] household. AMP
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; KJV

Philippians 3:20

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But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ NIV
But we are citizens of the state (commonwealth, homeland) which is in heaven, and from it also we earnestly and patiently await [the coming of] the Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) [as] Savior AMP
For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: KJV

Ephesians 2:12

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Remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. NIV
[Remember] that you were at that time separated (living apart) from Christ [excluded from all part in Him], utterly estranged and outlawed from the rights of Israel as a nation, and strangers with no share in the sacred compacts of the [Messianic] promise [with no knowledge of or right in God's agreements, His covenants]. And you had no hope (no promise); you were in the world without God. AMP
That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: KJV

Acts 22:28

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Then the commander said, "I had to pay a lot of money for my citizenship." "But I was born a citizen," Paul replied. NIV
The commandant replied, I purchased this citizenship [as a capital investment] for a big price. Paul said, But I was born [Roman]! AMP
And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born. KJV