Hebrews 11:10

American Standard Version (1901)

for he looked for the city which hath the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

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  • Heb 13:14 : 14 For we have not here an abiding city, but we seek after [the city] which is to come.
  • Heb 12:22 : 22 but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels,
  • Rev 21:2 : 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
  • Phil 3:20 : 20 For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
  • Heb 3:4 : 4 For every house is builded by some one; but he that built all things is God.
  • Isa 14:32 : 32 What then shall one answer the messengers of the nation? That Jehovah hath founded Zion, and in her shall the afflicted of his people take refuge.
  • John 14:2 : 2 In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.
  • Rev 21:10-27 : 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, 11 having the glory of God: her light was like unto a stone most precious, as it were a jasper stone, clear as crystal: 12 having a wall great and high; having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names written thereon, which are [the names] of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: 13 on the east were three gates; and on the north three gates; and on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. 14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. 15 And he that spake with me had for a measure a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. 16 And the city lieth foursquare, and the length thereof is as great as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs: the length and the breadth and the height thereof are equal. 17 And he measured the wall thereof, a hundred and forty and four cubits, [according to] the measure of a man, that is, of an angel. 18 And the building of the wall thereof was jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto pure glass. 19 The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald; 20 the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst. 21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each one of the several gates was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass. 22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God the Almighty, and the Lamb, are the temple thereof. 23 And the city hath no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine upon it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamp thereof [is] the Lamb. 24 And the nations shall walk amidst the light thereof: and the kings of the earth bring their glory into it. 25 And the gates thereof shall in no wise be shut by day (for there shall be no night there): 26 and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it: 27 and there shall in no wise enter into it anything unclean, or he that maketh an abomination and a lie: but only they that are written in the Lamb's book of life.
  • Heb 12:28 : 28 Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may offer service well-pleasing to God with reverence and awe:

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  • Heb 11:1-9
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    1Now faith is assurance of [things] hoped for, a conviction of things not seen.

    2For therein the elders had witness borne to them.

    3By faith we understand that the worlds have been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen hath not been made out of things which appear.

    4By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had witness borne to him that he was righteous, God bearing witness in respect of his gifts: and through it he being dead yet speaketh.

    5By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God translated him: for he hath had witness borne to him that before his translation he had been well-pleasing unto God:

    6And without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing [unto him] ; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.

    7By faith Noah, being warned [of God] concerning things not seen as yet, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

    8By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out unto a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

    9By faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise, as in a [land] not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

  • Heb 11:13-19
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    13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

    14For they that say such things make it manifest that they are seeking after a country of their own.

    15And if indeed they had been mindful of that [country] from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return.

    16But now they desire a better [country], that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city.

    17By faith Abraham, being tried, offered up Isaac: yea, he that had gladly received the promises was offering up his only begotten [son] ;

    18[ even he] to whom it was said, In Isaac shall thy seed be called:

    19accounting that God [is] able to raise up, even from the dead; from whence he did also in a figure receive him back.

  • Heb 11:11
    76%

    11By faith even Sarah herself received power to conceive seed when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised:

  • Heb 13:14
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    14For we have not here an abiding city, but we seek after [the city] which is to come.

  • Heb 11:25-28
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    25choosing rather to share ill treatment with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

    26accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he looked unto the recompense of reward.

    27By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

    28By faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.

  • Heb 11:38-40
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    38(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.

    39And these all, having had witness borne to them through their faith, received not the promise,

    40God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

  • Heb 3:2-4
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    71%

    2who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house.

    3For he hath been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much as he that built the house hath more honor than the house.

    4For every house is builded by some one; but he that built all things is God.

  • Rom 4:17-21
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    69%

    17(as it is written, A father of many nations have I made thee) before him whom he believed, [even] God, who giveth life to the dead, and calleth the things that are not, as though they were.

    18Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, So shall thy seed be.

    19And without being weakened in faith he considered his own body now as good as dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb;

    20yet, looking unto the promise of God, he wavered not through unbelief, but waxed strong through faith, giving glory to God,

    21and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

  • Heb 6:15
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    15And thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

  • Heb 10:23
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    23let us hold fast the confession of our hope that it waver not; for he is faithful that promised:

  • Heb 6:13
    68%

    13For when God made promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he sware by himself,

  • Heb 7:10
    68%

    10for he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchizedek met him.

  • Heb 10:36-37
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    68%

    36For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

    37For yet a very little while, He that cometh shall come, and shall not tarry.

  • Gen 15:6
    68%

    6And he believed in Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.

  • Heb 12:2
    67%

    2looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of [our] faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

  • 2 Cor 5:1
    67%

    1For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

  • Heb 6:17-19
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    17Wherein God, being minded to show more abundantly unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

    18that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us:

    19which we have as an anchor of the soul, [a hope] both sure and stedfast and entering into that which is within the veil;

  • Heb 11:30
    66%

    30By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been compassed about for seven days.

  • Ps 105:9
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    9[ The covenant] which he made with Abraham, And his oath unto Isaac,

  • Gen 11:4
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    4And they said, Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

  • Acts 7:46
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    46who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.

  • Heb 7:6
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    6but he whose genealogy is not counted from them hath taken tithes of Abraham, and hath blessed him that hath the promises.