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Philippians 3:21

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.

KJV

ὃς μετασχηματίσει τὸ σῶμα τῆς ταπεινώσεως ἡμῶν σύνμορφον τῷ σώματι τῆς δόξης αὐτοῦ κατὰ τὴν ἐνέργειαν τοῦ δύνασθαι αὐτὸν καὶ ὑποτάξαι αὐτῷ τὰ πάντα.

Greek NT

qui reformabit corpus humilitatis nostræ, configuratum corpori claritatis suæ, secundum operationem, qua etiam possit subjicere sibi omnia.

Vulgate

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.

ASV

Who will reform the body of our lowness, made like to the body of his glory, according to the operation whereby also he is able to subdue all things unto himself.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δόξα
doxa
noun · 166×
δύναμαι
dunamai
verb · 209×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κατά
kata
preposition · 470×
μετασχηματίζω
metaschematizo
verb · 5×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
σύμμορφος
summorphos
adjective · 2×
σῶμα
soma
noun · 141×
ταπείνωσις
tapeinosis
noun · 4×
ἐνέργεια
energeia
noun · 8×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
ὑποτάσσω
upotasso
verb · 38×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: ἡμῶν | WH/Treg/NIV: ἡμῶν | RP: + εἰς τὸ γενέσθαι αὐτὸ
  • ἡμῶν — SBLGNT
  • ἡμῶν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + εἰς τὸ γενέσθαι αὐτὸ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
notable
SBLGNT: αὑτῷ | WH: αὑτῷ | Treg/NIV: αὐτῷ | RP: ἑαυτῷ
  • αὑτῷ — SBLGNT
  • αὑτῷ — Westcott-Hort
  • αὐτῷ — Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἑαυτῷ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Historic Christian voices

13 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§556On the threshold of the public life: the baptism; on the threshold of the Passover: the Transfiguration. Jesus' baptism proclaimed "the mystery of the first regeneration", namely, our Baptism; the Transfiguration "is the sacrament of the second regeneration": our own Resurrection.300 From now on we share in the Lord's Resurrection through the Spirit who acts in the sacraments o…
§793Christ unites us with his Passover: all his members must strive to resemble him, "until Christ be formed" in them.227 "For this reason we . . . are taken up into the mysteries of his life, . . . associated with his sufferings as the body with its head, suffering with him, that with him we may be glorified."228
§999How? Christ is raised with his own body: "See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself";551 but he did not return to an earthly life. So, in him, "all of them will rise again with their own bodies which they now bear," but Christ "will change our lowly body to be like his glorious body," into a "spiritual body":552 But someone will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210214.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
2. Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? Do you see how excellently he reasons, and proves the resurrection from the fact of Christ's being raised, having first established the former in many ways? For both the prophets spoke of it, says he, and the Lord Himself showed it by His appeari…
1. Concerning Those Who Asked Him to Show Them a Sign from Heaven. And the Sadducees and Pharisees came, and tempting Him kept asking Him to show them a sign from heaven. Matthew 16:1 The Sadducees and Pharisees who disagreed with each other in regard to the most essential truths, — for the Pharisees champion the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, hoping that there will …
1. Relation of the Baptist to Elijah. The Theory of Transmigration Considered. The disciples asked Him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elijah must first come? Matthew 17:10 The disciples indeed who went up with Jesus remembered the traditions of the scribes concerning Elijah, that before the advent of Christ, Elijah would come and prepare for Him the souls of those who w…
43. Behold then what men considered the foolishness of God because of the Cross, has become of all things most honoured. For our resurrection is stored up in it; and no longer Israel alone, but henceforth all the nations, as the Prophet has foretold, leave their idols and acknowledge the true God, the Father of the Christ. And the illusion of demons has come to nought, and He o…
Is Christ's Resurrection the cause of our resurrection? Is it the cause of our justification? Article 1. Whether Christ's Resurrection is the cause of the resurrection of our bodies? Objection 1. It would seem that Christ's Resurrection is not the cause of the resurrection of our bodies, because, given a sufficient cause, the effect must follow of necessity. If, then, Christ's …
Heidelberg Catechism · 2 passages
Q. How does Christ's resurrection benefit us? A. First, by his resurrection he has overcome death, so that he might make us share in the righteousness he won for us by his death. Second, by his power we too are already now raised to a new life. Third, Christ's resurrection is a guarantee of our glorious resurrection.
Q. How does the resurrection of the body comfort you? A. Not only my soul will be taken immediately after this life to Christ its head, but even my very flesh, raised by the power of Christ, will be reunited with my soul and made like Christ's glorious body.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 6:14 — And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
  • 1Cor 15:25 — For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
  • 1Cor 15:28 — And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
  • 1Cor 15:35 — But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?
  • 1Cor 15:42 — So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
  • 1Cor 15:45 — And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
  • 1Cor 15:51 — Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
  • 1John 3:2 — Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
  • 1John 3:2 — Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
  • 2Pet 1:16 — For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
  • 2Tim 1:12 — For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against th
  • Acts 24:15 — And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
  • Acts 26:8 — Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?
  • Col 3:4 — When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
  • Col 3:4 — When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
  • Eph 1:19 — And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
  • Gen 18:14 — Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
  • Heb 2:18 — For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
  • Heb 7:25 — Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
  • Hos 13:14 — I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
  • Hos 13:14 — I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
  • Isa 25:8 — He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.
  • Isa 26:19 — Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
  • Isa 26:19 — Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
  • Job 14:14 — If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
  • Job 19:26 — And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
  • John 5:19 — Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son li
  • John 5:25 — Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
  • John 5:28 — Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
  • John 11:24 — Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
  • John 11:44 — And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
  • Luke 1:37 — For with God nothing shall be impossible.
  • Luke 9:31 — Who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.
  • Luke 20:36 — Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
  • Mark 5:41 — And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise.
  • Mark 9:2 — And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.
  • Mark 10:27 — And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.
  • Mark 12:24 — And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
  • Matt 17:2 — And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
  • Matt 22:29 — Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.