Hebrews 11:15
And truly if they had kept in mind the country from which they went out, they would have had chances of turning back.
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- Gen 24:6-8 : 6 And Abraham said, Take care that you do not let my son go back to that land. 7 The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and made an oath to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: he will send his angel before you and give you a wife for my son in that land. 8 And if the woman will not come with you, then you are free from this oath; only do not take my son back there.
- Gen 12:10 : 10 And because there was little food to be had in that land, he went down into Egypt.
- Gen 11:31 : 31 And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and they went out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and were there for some time.
- Gen 31:18 : 18 And sending on before him all his cattle and his property which he had got together in Paddan-aram, he made ready to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
- Gen 32:9-9 : 9 Then Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, the God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, Go back to your country and your family and I will be good to you: 10 I am less than nothing in comparison with all your mercies and your faith to me your servant; for with only my stick in my hand I went across Jordan, and now I have become two armies. 11 Be my saviour from the hand of Esau, my brother: for my fear is that he will make an attack on me, putting to death mother and child.
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16 But now their desire is for a better country, that is to say, for one in heaven; and so it is no shame to God to be named their God; for he has made ready a town for them.
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13 All these came to their end in faith, not having had the heritage; but having seen it with delight far away, they gave witness that they were wanderers and not of the earth.
14 For those who say such things make it clear that they are searching for a country for themselves.
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14 For here we have no fixed resting-place, but our search is for the one which is to come.
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10 Then their father Israel said to them, If it has to be so, then do this: take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels to give the man, perfumes and honey and spices and nuts:
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15 For if you are turned away from him, he will send them wandering again in the waste land; and you will be the cause of the destruction of all this people.
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5 And in the same place he says again, They will not come into my rest.
6 So that as it is clear that some have to go in, and that the first hearers of the good news were not able to go in because they went against God's orders,
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9 By faith he was a wanderer in the land of the agreement, as in a strange land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had a part with him in the same heritage:
10 For he was looking for the strong town, whose builder and maker is God.
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37 And if they take thought, in the land where they are prisoners, turning again to you, crying out in prayer to you in that land, and saying, We are sinners, we have done wrong, we have done evil;
38 If with all their heart and soul they are turned again to you, in the land where they are prisoners, the land where they have been taken, and make their prayers, turning their eyes to their land which you gave to their fathers, and to the town which you took for yourself, and the house which I have made for your name:
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27 But to the land on which their soul's desire is fixed, they will never come back.
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38 Wandering in waste places and in mountains and in holes in the rocks; for whom the world was not good enough.
39 And not one of these got the good things of the agreement, though they all had a good record through faith,
40 Because God had kept some better thing for us, so that it was not possible for them to become complete without us.
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4 They were wandering in the waste places; they saw no way to a resting-place.
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39 By whom our fathers would not be controlled; but they put him on one side, turning back in their hearts to Egypt,
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47 And if they take thought, in the land where they are prisoners, and are turned again to you, crying out in prayer to you in that land, and saying, We are sinners, we have done wrong, we have done evil;
48 And with all their heart and soul are turned again to you, in the land of those who took them prisoners, and make their prayer to you, turning their eyes to this land which you gave to their fathers, and to the town which you took for yourself, and the house which I made for your name:
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19 When you were still small in number, and strange in the land;
20 When they went about from one nation to another, and from one kingdom to another people;
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21 For it would have been better for them to have had no knowledge of the way of righteousness, than to go back again from the holy law which was given to them, after having knowledge of it.
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5 With knowledge of the good word of God, and of the powers of the coming time,
6 And then let themselves be turned away, it is not possible for their hearts to be made new a second time; because they themselves put the Son of God on the cross again, openly shaming him.
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29 If only they were wise, if only this was clear to them, and they would give thought to their future!
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17 For you have knowledge that even long after, when he was desiring the blessing for his heritage, he was turned away, though he made his request frequently and with weeping; because the past might not be changed.
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27 Because they did not go after him, and took no note of his ways,
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6 My people have been wandering sheep: their keepers have made them go out of the right way, turning them loose on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, having no memory of their resting-place.
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12 When they were still small in number, and strange in the land;
13 When they went about from one nation to another, and from one kingdom to another people.
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35 In the memory that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their saviour.
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11 See now, how as our reward they have come to send us out of your land which you have given us as our heritage.
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7 For if that first agreement had been as good as possible, there would have been no place for a second.
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26 Judging a part in the shame of Christ to be better than all the wealth of Egypt; for he was looking forward to his reward.
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17 Now after Pharaoh had let the people go, God did not take them through the land of the Philistines, though that was near: for God said, If the people see war, they may have a change of heart and go back to Egypt.
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8 For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have said anything about another day.
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19 And what sort of land they are living in, if it is good or bad; and what their living-places are, tent-circles or walled towns;
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25 Then men will say, Because they gave up the agreement of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he took them out of the land of Egypt:
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6 And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt; who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living?
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2 For if this had been possible, would there not have been an end of those offerings, because the worshippers would have been made completely clean and would have been no longer conscious of sins?
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9 For if you come back to the Lord, those who took away your brothers and your children will have pity on them, and let them come back to this land: for the Lord your God is full of grace and mercy, and his face will not be turned away from you if you come back to him.
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28 Or it may be said in the land from which you have taken them, Because the Lord was not able to take them into the land which he said he would give them, and because of his hate for them, he has taken them out to put them to death in the waste land.
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42 They did not keep in mind the work of his hand, or the day when he took them from the power of their haters;
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39 So he kept in mind that they were only flesh; a breath which is quickly gone, and will not come again.
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14 But I will be the judge of that nation whose servants they are, and they will come out from among them with great wealth.
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1 For this reason there is the more need for us to give attention to the things which have come to our ears, for fear that by chance we might be slipping away.
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3 If you have had a taste of the grace of the Lord:
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6 When I gave them food they were full, and their hearts were full of pride, and they did not keep me in mind.