Philippians 3:21 BSB

Philippians 3:21

who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.

BSB

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ASV

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 subject all things unto himself.

KJV

Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

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Commentary

5 voices

Tertullian

On the Resurrection of the Flesh (220)

It was as full of this splendid example that Paul said: "Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body." But if you maintain that a transfiguration and a conversion amounts to the annihilation of any substance, then it follows that "Saul, when changed into another man," passed away from his own bodily substance; and that Satan himself, when "transformed into an angel of light," loses his own proper character.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

It will then be purer than the unspotted firmament, brighter than the lustre of the stars and, which exceeds all parallel, which comprehends all perfection, like unto his glorious body - Like that wonderfully glorious body which he wears in his heavenly kingdom, and on his triumphant throne.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

At Christ's resurrection was a glorious instance of the divine power, and therefore he is declared to be the Son of God with power, by the resurrection from the dead ( Rom. i. 4 ), so will our resurrection be: and his resurrection is a standing evidence, as well as pattern, of ours.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Who shall change our vile body - compare the notes at 1 Cor. 15: The original words, which are rendered here as “vile body,” properly mean “the body of humiliation;” that is, our humble body. It refers to the body as it is in its present state, as subject to infirmities, disease, and death. It is different far from what it was when man was created, and from what it will be in the future world.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Greek, "Who shall transfigure the body of our humiliation (namely, in which our humiliation has place, 2Co 4:10; 2Ti 2:12), that it may be conformed unto the body of His glory (namely, in which His glory is manifested), according to the effectual working whereby," &c.

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Original language & word study

24 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὃς	hos	who	G3739 →
μετασχηματίσει	metaschēmatisei	will transform	G3345 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
σῶμα	sōma	body	G4983 →
τῆς	tēs	of the	G3588 →
ταπεινώσεως	tapeinōseōs	humiliation	G5014 →
ἡμῶν	hēmōn	of us	G3165 →
σύμμορφον	summorphon	conformed	G4832 →
τῷ	tō	to the	G3588 →
σώματι	sōmati	body	G4983 →
τῆς	tēs	of the	G3588 →
δόξης	doxēs	glory	G1391 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	of Himself	G846 →
κατὰ	kata	according to	G2596 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
ἐνέργειαν	energeian	working	G1753 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
δύνασθαι	dunasthai	enabling	G1410 →
αὐτὸν	auton	Him	G846 →
καὶ	kai	even	G2532 →
ὑποτάξαι	hupotaxai	to subdue	G5293 →
αὐτῷ	autō	to Him	G846 →
τὰ	ta	<the>	G3588 →
πάντα.¶	panta	all things.	G3956 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Romans 8:29
For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
leads to
- Ephesians 1:4–5
  For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love
- Jeremiah 1:5
  “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
- Ephesians 1:11
  In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,
- 2 Timothy 1:9
  He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.
- 1 Peter 1:20
  He was known before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sake.
Through
1 John 3:2
Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as…
leads to
- Colossians 3:4
  When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
- 1 Corinthians 13:12
  Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
- 2 Corinthians 3:18
  And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

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Where the connections lead

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The walk

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About Philippians