Hebrews 11:40

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Rev 6:11 : 11 And there was given them to each one a white robe; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little time, until their fellow-servants also and their brethren, who should be killed even as they were, should have fulfilled [their course] .
  • Heb 5:9 : 9 and having been made perfect, he became unto all them that obey him the author of eternal salvation;
  • Heb 7:19 : 19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw nigh unto God.
  • Heb 7:22 : 22 by so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant.
  • Heb 8:6 : 6 But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises.
  • Heb 9:8-9 : 8 the Holy Spirit this signifying, that the way into the holy place hath not yet been made manifest, while the first tabernacle is yet standing; 9 which [is] a figure for the time present; according to which are offered both gifts and sacrifices that cannot, as touching the conscience, make the worshipper perfect, 10 [ being] only (with meats and drinks and divers washings) carnal ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation. 11 But Christ having come a high priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, 12 nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling them that have been defiled, sanctify unto the cleanness of the flesh: 14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 15 And for this cause he is the mediator of a new covenant, that a death having taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they that have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
  • Heb 9:23 : 23 It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
  • Heb 10:11-14 : 11 And every priest indeed standeth day by day ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, the which can never take away sins: 12 but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; 13 henceforth expecting till his enemies be made the footstool of his feet. 14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
  • Heb 12:23-24 : 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better than [that of] Abel.
  • Rom 3:25-26 : 25 whom God set forth [to be] a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God; 26 for the showing, [I say], of his righteousness at this present season: that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus.

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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.

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    19(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw nigh unto God.

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    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.

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    15Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything ye are otherwise minded, this also shall God reveal unto you:

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

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    6But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises.

    7For if that first [covenant] had been faultless, then would no place have been sought for a second.

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    6Seeing therefore it remaineth that some should enter thereinto, and they to whom the good tidings were before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,

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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.

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    14For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

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    1Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.

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    1For the law having a shadow of the good [things] to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw nigh.

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    7But without any dispute the less is blessed of the better.

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    11But Christ having come a high priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,

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    10For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

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    11Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man fall after the same example of disobedience.

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    10but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.

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    24whereas our comely [parts] have no need: but God tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to that [part] which lacked;

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    2For therein the elders had witness borne to them.

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    10For verily that which hath been made glorious hath not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasseth.

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

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    29For the gifts and the calling of God are not repented of.

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    17That the man of God may be complete, furnished completely unto every good work.

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    9But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak:

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    12for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:

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    4For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office:

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    19And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

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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;

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    25not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting [one another] ; and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh.

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    4And let patience have [its] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

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    14Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord: