Hebrews 11:14

Geneva Bible (1560)

For they that say such things, declare plainely, that they seeke a countrey.

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  • 2 Cor 4:18-5:7 : 18 While we looke not on the thinges which are seene, but on the things which are not seene: for the things which are seene, are temporall: but the things which are not seene, are eternall. 1 For we knowe that if our earthly house of this tabernacle be destroyed, we haue a building giuen of God, that is, an house not made with handes, but eternall in the heauens. 2 For therefore we sighe, desiring to be clothed with our house, which is from heauen. 3 Because that if we be clothed, we shal not be found naked. 4 For in deede we that are in this tabernacle, sigh and are burdened, because we would not be vnclothed, but would be clothed vpon, that mortalitie might be swalowed vp of life. 5 And he that hath created vs for this thing, is God, who also hath giuen vnto vs the earnest of the Spirit. 6 Therefore we are always bolde, though we knowe that whiles we are at home in the bodie, we are absent from the Lord. 7 (For we walke by faith, and not by sight.)
  • Phil 1:23 : 23 For I am distressed betweene both, desiring to be loosed and to be with Christ, which is best of all.
  • Heb 11:16 : 16 But nowe they desire a better, that is an heauenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a citie.
  • Heb 13:14 : 14 For here haue we no continuing citie: but we seeke one to come.
  • Rom 8:23-25 : 23 And not onely the creature, but we also which haue the first fruites of the Spirit, euen we doe sigh in our selues, waiting for the adoption, euen the redemption of our body. 24 For we are saued by hope: but hope that is seene, is not hope: for how can a man hope for that which he seeth? 25 But if we hope for that we see not, we doe with patience abide for it.

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  • Heb 11:15-16
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    82%

    15And if they had bene mindfull of that countrey, from whence they came out, they had leasure to haue returned.

    16But nowe they desire a better, that is an heauenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a citie.

  • Heb 11:13
    81%

    13All these died in faith, and receiued not the promises, but sawe them a farre off, and beleeued them, and receiued them thankefully, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

  • Heb 13:13-14
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    79%

    13Let vs goe foorth to him therefore out of the campe, bearing his reproch.

    14For here haue we no continuing citie: but we seeke one to come.

  • Heb 11:8-10
    3 verses
    72%

    8By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed God, to goe out into a place, which hee should afterward receiue for inheritance, and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

    9By faith he abode in the land of promes, as in a strange countrey, as one that dwelt in tents with Isaac and Iacob heires with him of the same promes.

    10For he looked for a citie hauing a foundation, whose builder and maker is God.

  • Heb 11:37-40
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    37They were stoned, they were hewen asunder, they were tempted, they were slaine with the sworde, they wandred vp and downe in sheepes skinnes, and in goates skinnes, being destitute, afflicted, and tormented:

    38Whom the world was not worthie of: they wandered in wildernesses and mountaines, and dennes, and caues of the earth.

    39And these all through faith obteined good report, and receiued not the promes,

    40God prouiding a better thing for vs, that they without vs should not be made perfite.

  • Phil 3:20
    68%

    20But our conuersation is in heauen, from whence also we looke for the Sauiour, euen the Lord Iesus Christ,

  • Heb 11:2-3
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    67%

    2For by it our elders were wel reported of.

    3Through faith we vnderstand that the world was ordeined by the worde of God, so that the things which we see, are not made of things which did appeare.

  • 1 Pet 2:11
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    11Dearely beloued, I beseeche you, as strangers and pilgrims, absteine from fleshly lusts, which fight against the soule,

  • 1 Chr 16:19-20
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    19When ye were fewe in number, yea, a very fewe, and strangers therein,

    20And walked about from nation to nation, and from one kingdome to another people,

  • 1 Chr 29:15
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    15For we are stragers before thee, & soiourners, like all our fathers: our dayes are like ye shadowe vpon the earth, & there is none abiding.

  • Heb 4:5-6
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    5And in this place againe, If they shall enter into my rest.

    6Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter thereinto, & they to whom it was first preached, entred not therein for vnbeliefes sake:

  • 2 Cor 5:1-2
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    1For we knowe that if our earthly house of this tabernacle be destroyed, we haue a building giuen of God, that is, an house not made with handes, but eternall in the heauens.

    2For therefore we sighe, desiring to be clothed with our house, which is from heauen.

  • Heb 11:26-27
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    26Esteeming the rebuke of Christ greater riches then the treasures of Egypt: for he had respect vnto the recompence of the reward.

    27By faith he forsooke Egypt, and feared not the fiercenes of the king: for he endured, as he that sawe him which is inuisible.

  • Ps 107:4
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    4When they wandered in the desert and wildernesse out of the waie, and founde no citie to dwell in,

  • John 17:16
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    16They are not of the worlde, as I am not of the world.

  • 3 John 1:7
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    7Because that for his Names sake they went forth, and tooke nothing of the Gentiles.

  • Heb 10:15
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    15For the holy Ghost also beareth vs record: for after that he had sayd before,

  • Exod 6:4
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    4Furthermore as I made my couenant with them to giue them ye land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers:

  • Ps 105:12-13
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    12Albeit they were fewe in nomber, yea, very fewe, and strangers in the land,

    13And walked about from nation to nation, from one kingdome to another people,

  • Heb 12:27
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    27And this worde, Yet once more, signifieth the remouing of those things which are shaken, as of things which are made with hands, that the things which are not shaken, may remaine.

  • Num 14:7
    65%

    7And spake vnto all the assemblie of the childre of Israel, saying, The land which we walked through to search it, is a very good lande.

  • 2 Chr 20:11
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    11Behold, I say, they reward vs, in coming to cast vs out of thine inheritance, which thou hast caused vs to inherit.

  • Heb 11:34
    65%

    34Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sworde, of weake were made strong, waxed valiant in battell, turned to flight the armies of the aliants.

  • Heb 2:11
    65%

    11For he that sanctifieth, and they which are sanctified, are all of one: wherefore he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

  • Acts 14:6
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    6They were ware of it, and fled vnto Lystra, and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and vnto the region round about,

  • Heb 7:15
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    15And it is yet a more euident thing, because that after the similitude of Melchi-sedec, there is risen vp another Priest,

  • Gen 15:14
    65%

    14Notwithstanding the nation, whom they shall serue, will I iudge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

  • Lam 4:15
    65%

    15But they cried vnto them, Depart, ye polluted, depart, depart, touch not: therefore they fled away, and wandered: they haue sayd among the heathen, They shal no more dwell there.

  • Gen 11:4
    64%

    4Also they said, Goe to, let vs builde vs a citie and a towre, whose top may reache vnto the heauen, that we may get vs a name, lest we be scattered vpon the whole earth.

  • 2 Cor 4:18
    64%

    18While we looke not on the thinges which are seene, but on the things which are not seene: for the things which are seene, are temporall: but the things which are not seene, are eternall.

  • 1 Pet 1:11
    64%

    11Searching when or what time the Spirite which testified before of Christ which was in them, shoulde declare the sufferings that should come vnto Christ, and the glorie that shoulde followe.

  • Heb 12:17
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    17For ye knowe howe that afterwarde also when he woulde haue inherited the blessing, he was reiected: for he founde no place to repentance, though he sought that blessing with teares.

  • Heb 6:17
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    17So God, willing more aboundantly to shew vnto the heires of promes the stablenes of his counsell, bound himselfe by an othe,

  • Heb 10:34
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    34For both ye sorowed with mee for my bonds, and suffered with ioy the spoyling of your goods, knowing in your selues howe that ye haue in heauen a better, and an enduring substance.

  • Heb 12:14
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    14Followe peace with all men, and holinesse, without the which no man shall see ye Lord.

  • Heb 11:18
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    18(To whom it was said, In Isaac shall thy seede be called.)

  • Heb 4:14
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    14Seeing then that wee haue a great hie Priest, which is entred into heauen, euen Iesus the Sonne of God, let vs holde fast our profession.