Hebrews 11:16

Geneva Bible (1560)

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.

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  • Exod 3:6 : 6 Moreouer he saide, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Izhak, and the God of Iaakob. Then Moses hid his face: for he was afraid to looke vpon God.
  • Heb 2:11 : 11 For he that sanctifieth, and they which are sanctified, are all of one: wherefore he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
  • Heb 11:10 : 10 For he looked for a citie hauing a foundation, whose builder and maker is God.
  • Heb 13:14 : 14 For here haue we no continuing citie: but we seeke one to come.
  • Exod 3:15 : 15 And God spake further vnto Moses, Thus shalt thou say vnto the children of Israel, The Lorde God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Izhak, and the God of Iaakob hath sent me vnto you: this is my Name for euer, and this is my memoriall vnto all ages.
  • Gen 17:7-8 : 7 Moreouer I wil establish my couenant betweene me and thee, and thy seede after thee in their generations, for an euerlasting couenant, to be God vnto thee and to thy seede after thee. 8 And I will giue thee and thy seede after thee the land, wherein thou art a stranger, euen all the land of Canaan, for an euerlasting possession, and I will be their God.
  • Isa 41:8-9 : 8 But thou, Israel, art my seruant, and thou Iaakob, whom I haue chosen, the seede of Abraham my friend. 9 For I haue taken thee from the endes of the earth, and called thee before the chiefe thereof, and saide vnto thee, Thou art my seruant: I haue chosen thee, and not cast thee away. 10 Feare thou not, for I am with thee: be not afraide, for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee, and helpe thee, and will susteine thee with the right hand of my iustice.
  • Matt 25:34 : 34 Then shall ye king say to them on his right hand, Come ye blessed of my father: take the inheritance of the kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
  • Mark 8:38 : 38 For whosoeuer shall be ashamed of mee, and of my wordes among this adulterous and sinfull generation, of him shall the Sonne of man be ashamed also, when he commeth in the glorie of his Father with the holy Angels.
  • Heb 11:14 : 14 For they that say such things, declare plainely, that they seeke a countrey.
  • John 14:2 : 2 In my Fathers house are many dwelling places: if it were not so, I would haue tolde you: I go to prepare a place for you.
  • Acts 7:32 : 32 I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob. Then Moses trembled, & durst not behold it.
  • Phil 3:20 : 20 But our conuersation is in heauen, from whence also we looke for the Sauiour, euen the Lord Iesus Christ,
  • 2 Tim 4:18 : 18 And the Lorde will deliuer me from euery euil worke, and will preserue me vnto his heauenly kingdome: to whome be praise for euer and euer, Amen.
  • Gen 28:13 : 13 And behold, the Lord stoode aboue it, & sayd, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Izhak: the land, vpon the which thou sleepest, wil I giue thee and thy seede.
  • Luke 12:32 : 32 Feare not, litle flocke: for it is your Fathers pleasure, to giue you the kingdome.
  • Luke 20:37 : 37 And that the dead shall rise againe, euen Moses shewed it besides the bush, when he said, The Lord is the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob.
  • Heb 12:22 : 22 But ye are come vnto the mount Sion, and to the citie of the liuing God, the celestiall Hierusalem, and to ye company of innumerable Angels,
  • Mark 12:26 : 26 And as touching the dead, that they shall rise againe, haue ye not read in the booke of Moses, howe in the bush God spake vnto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob?
  • Jer 31:1 : 1 At the same time, saith the Lorde, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
  • Matt 22:31-32 : 31 And concerning the resurrection of the dead, haue ye not read what is spoken vuto you of God, saying, 32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the liuing.
  • Gen 26:24 : 24 And the Lord appeared vnto him the same night, and sayde, I am the God of Abraham thy father: feare not, for I am with thee, and wil blesse thee, and will multiplie thy seede for my seruant Abrahams sake.
  • Exod 4:5 : 5 Do this that they may beleeue, that the Lorde God of their fathers, the God of Abraha, the God of Izhak, and the God of Iaakob hath appeared vnto thee.

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  • Heb 11:13-15
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    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.

    14For they that say such things, declare plainely, that they seeke a countrey.

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

  • Heb 11:8-10
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    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 13:13-14
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    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 11:37-40
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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.

  • Heb 11:25-27
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    25And chose rather to suffer aduersitie with the people of God, then to enioy the pleasures of sinnes for a season,

    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.

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

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    17By faith Abraham offered vp Isaac, when he was tryed, and he that had receiued the promises, offered his onely begotten sonne.

  • Heb 11:1-3
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    1Nowe faith is the ground of things, which are hoped for, and the euidence of things which are not seene.

    2For by it our elders were wel reported of.

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  • Phil 3:20
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    20But our conuersation is in heauen, from whence also we looke for the Sauiour, euen the Lord Iesus Christ,

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    22But ye are come vnto the mount Sion, and to the citie of the liuing God, the celestiall Hierusalem, and to ye company of innumerable Angels,

    23And to the assemblie and congregation of the first borne, which are written in heauen, and to God the iudge of all, and to the spirits of iust and perfite men,

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    5By faith was Enoch translated, that he should not see death: neither was he found: for God had translated him: for before he was translated, he was reported of, that he had pleased God.

    6But without faith it is vnpossible to please him: for he that commeth to God, must beleeue that God is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seeke him.

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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.

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    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.

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    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.

    35The women receiued their dead raised to life: other also were racked, and woulde not be deliuered, that they might receiue a better resurrection.

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    9But beloued, we haue perswaded our selues better things of you, and such as accompany saluation, though we thus speake.

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    11But Christ being come an high Priest of good things to come, by a greater and a more perfect Tabernacle, not made with handes, that is, not of this building,

  • Deut 6:10
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    10And when the Lord thy God hath brought thee into the land, which he sware vnto thy fathers, Abraham, Izhak, and Iaakob, to giue to thee, with great and goodly cities which thou buildedst not,

  • Heb 6:5-6
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    5And haue tasted of the good word of God, and of the powers of the world to come,

    6If they fal away, should be renued againe by repentance: seeing they crucifie againe to themselues the Sonne of God, & make a mocke of him.

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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,

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

  • Ezek 11:16
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    16Therefore say, Thus saith the Lorde God, Although I haue cast them farre off among the heathen, and although I haue scattered them among the countreis, yet wil I be to them as a litle Sanctuarie in ye countreis where they shal come.

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    6But nowe our hie Priest hath obteined a more excellent office, in as much as he is the Mediatour of a better Testament, which is established vpon better promises.

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    13For when God made the promise to Abraham, because he had no greater to sweare by, he sware by himselfe,

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    4To an inheritance immortall and vndefiled, and that withereth not, reserued in heauen for vs,

  • Ps 115:2
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    2Wherefore shall the heathen say, Where is nowe their God?

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    28Wherefore seeing we receiue a kingdome, which cannot be shaken, let vs haue grace whereby we may so serue God, that we may please him with reuerence and feare.

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    26Whose voyce then shooke the earth and nowe hath declared, saying, Yet once more will I shake, not the earth onely, but also heauen.

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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:

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