Hebrews 11:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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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  • Exod 3:6 : 6 And he said, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses kept his face covered for fear of looking on God.
  • Heb 2:11 : 11 For he who makes holy and those who are made holy are all of one family; and for this reason it is no shame for him to give them the name of brothers,
  • Heb 11:10 : 10 For he was looking for the strong town, whose builder and maker is God.
  • Heb 13:14 : 14 For here we have no fixed resting-place, but our search is for the one which is to come.
  • Exod 3:15 : 15 And God went on to say to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has sent me to you: this is my name for ever, and this is my sign to all generations.
  • Gen 17:7-8 : 7 And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you. 8 And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.
  • Isa 41:8-9 : 8 But as for you, Israel, my servant, and you, Jacob, whom I have taken for myself, the seed of Abraham my friend: 9 You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and sent for from its farthest parts, saying to you, You are my servant, whom I have taken for myself, and whom I have not given up: 10 Have no fear, for I am with you; do not be looking about in trouble, for I am your God; I will give you strength, yes, I will be your helper; yes, my true right hand will be your support.
  • Matt 25:34 : 34 Then will the King say to those on his right, Come, you who have the blessing of my Father, into the kingdom made ready for you before the world was:
  • Mark 8:38 : 38 Whoever has a feeling of shame because of me and my words in this false and evil generation, the Son of man will have a feeling of shame because of him, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
  • Heb 11:14 : 14 For those who say such things make it clear that they are searching for a country for themselves.
  • John 14:2 : 2 In my Father's house are rooms enough; if it was not so, would I have said that I am going to make ready a place for you?
  • Acts 7:32 : 32 I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob. And Moses, shaking with fear, kept his eyes from looking at it.
  • Phil 3:20 : 20 For our country is in heaven; from where the Saviour for whom we are waiting will come, even the Lord Jesus Christ:
  • 2 Tim 4:18 : 18 The Lord will keep me safe from every evil work and will give me salvation in his kingdom in heaven: to whom be glory for ever and ever. So be it.
  • Gen 28:13 : 13 And he saw the Lord by his side, saying, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: I will give to you and to your seed this land on which you are sleeping.
  • Luke 12:32 : 32 Have no fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
  • Luke 20:37 : 37 But even Moses made it clear that the dead come back to life, saying, in the story of the burning thorn-tree, The Lord, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
  • Heb 12:22 : 22 But you have come to the mountain of Zion, to the place of the living God, to the Jerusalem which is in heaven, and to an army of angels which may not be numbered,
  • Mark 12:26 : 26 But as to the dead coming back to life; have you not seen in the book of Moses, about the burning thorn-tree, how God said to him, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
  • Jer 31:1 : 1 At that time, says the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.
  • Matt 22:31-32 : 31 But about the dead coming back to life, have you no knowledge of what was said to you by God in the Writings: 32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead but of the living.
  • Gen 26:24 : 24 That night the Lord came to him in a vision, and said, I am the God of your father Abraham: have no fear for I am with you, blessing you, and your seed will be increased because of my servant Abraham.
  • Exod 4:5 : 5 So that they may be certain that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has been seen by you.

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  • Heb 11:13-15
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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.

    15 And truly if they had kept in mind the country from which they went out, they would have had chances of turning back.

  • Heb 11:8-10
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    8 By faith Abraham did as God said when he was ordered to go out into a place which was to be given to him as a heritage, and went out without knowledge of where he was going.

    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.

  • Heb 13:13-14
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    13 Let us then go out to him outside the circle of the tents, taking his shame on ourselves.

    14 For here we have no fixed resting-place, but our search is for the one which is to come.

  • Heb 11:37-40
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    37 They were stoned, they were cut up with knives, they were tested, they were put to death with the sword, they went about in sheepskins and in goatskins; being poor and in pain and cruelly attacked,

    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.

  • Heb 11:25-27
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    25 Feeling that it was better to undergo pain with the people of God, than for a short time to have a taste of the pleasures of sin;

    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.

    27 By faith he went out of Egypt, not being turned from his purpose by fear of the wrath of the king; for he kept on his way, as seeing him who is unseen.

  • Heb 2:11
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    11 For he who makes holy and those who are made holy are all of one family; and for this reason it is no shame for him to give them the name of brothers,

  • Heb 11:17
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    17 By faith Abraham made an offering of Isaac, when he was tested: and he with whom the agreement had been made gave up as an offering the only son of his body,

  • Heb 11:1-3
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    1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the sign that the things not seen are true.

    2 For by it our fathers had God's approval.

    3 By faith it is clear to us that the order of events was fixed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made from things which only seem to be.

  • Phil 3:20
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    20 For our country is in heaven; from where the Saviour for whom we are waiting will come, even the Lord Jesus Christ:

  • Heb 12:22-23
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    22 But you have come to the mountain of Zion, to the place of the living God, to the Jerusalem which is in heaven, and to an army of angels which may not be numbered,

    23 To the great meeting and church of the first of those who are named in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of good men made complete,

  • Heb 11:5-6
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    5 By faith Enoch was taken up to heaven so that he did not see death; he was seen no longer, for God took him away: for before he was taken, witness had been given that he was well-pleasing to God:

    6 And without faith it is not possible to be well-pleasing to him, for it is necessary for anyone who comes to God to have the belief that God is, and that he is a rewarder of all those who make a serious search for him.

  • 2 Cor 5:1-2
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    1 For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.

    2 For in this we are crying in weariness, greatly desiring to be clothed with our house from heaven:

  • Gen 11:4
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    4 And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth.

  • Heb 11:34-35
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    34 Put out the power of fire, got safely away from the edge of the sword, were made strong when they had been feeble, became full of power in war, and put to flight the armies of the nations.

    35 Women had their dead given back to them living; others let themselves be cruelly attacked, having no desire to go free, so that they might have a better life to come;

  • Heb 6:9
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    9 But, my loved ones, though we say this, we are certain that you have better things in you, things which go with salvation;

  • Heb 9:11
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    11 But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world,

  • Deut 6:10
    66%

    10 And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land which he gave his oath to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, that he would give you; with great and fair towns which were not of your building;

  • Heb 6:5-6
    2 verses
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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.

  • Heb 6:17
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    17 So that when it was God's desire to make it specially clear to those who by his word were to have the heritage, that his purpose was fixed, he made it more certain with an oath;

  • Heb 4:6
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    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,

  • Ezek 11:16
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    16 For this reason say, This is what the Lord has said: Though I have had them moved far off among the nations, and though I have sent them wandering among the countries, still I have been a safe place for them for a little time in the countries where they have come.

  • Heb 8:6
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    6 But now his position as priest is higher. because through him God has made a better agreement with man, based on the giving of better things.

  • Heb 6:13
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    13 For when God made his oath to Abraham, because there was no greater oath, he made it by himself,

  • 1 Pet 1:4
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    4 And a heritage fair, holy and for ever new, waiting in heaven for you,

  • Ps 115:2
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    2 Why may the nations say, Where is now their God?

  • 1 Pet 2:11
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    11 My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;

  • Heb 12:28
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    28 If then, we have a kingdom which will never be moved, let us have grace, so that we may give God such worship as is pleasing to him with fear and respect:

  • Heb 12:26
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    26 Whose voice was the cause of the shaking of the earth; but now he has made an oath, saying, There will be still one more shaking, not only of the earth, but of heaven.

  • Exod 6:4
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    4 And I made an agreement with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their wanderings.

  • Heb 10:36
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    36 For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.

  • Heb 10:34
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    34 For you had pity on those who were in prison, and had joy in the loss of your property, in the knowledge that you still had a better property and one which you would keep for ever.

  • Heb 9:24
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    24 For Christ did not go into a holy place which had been made by men's hands as the copy of the true one; but he went into heaven itself, and now takes his place before the face of God for us.

  • Eph 2:19
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    19 So then you are no longer as those who have no part or place in the kingdom of God, but you are numbered among the saints, and of the family of God,