Hebrews 11:14

Authorized King James Version (1611)

For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.

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  • 2 Cor 4:18-5:7 : 18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen [are] temporal; but the things which are not seen [are] eternal. 1 ¶ For we know that if our earthly house of [this] tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: 3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. 4 For we that are in [this] tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. 5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing [is] God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. 6 Therefore [we are] always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: 7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
  • Phil 1:23 : 23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
  • Heb 11:16 : 16 But now they desire a better [country], that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
  • Heb 13:14 : 14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
  • Rom 8:23-25 : 23 And not only [they], but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, [to wit], the redemption of our body. 24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? 25 But if we hope for that we see not, [then] do we with patience wait for [it].

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    15And truly, if they had been mindful of that [country] from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.

    16But now they desire a better [country], that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

  • Heb 11:13
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    13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of [them], and embraced [them], and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

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    13Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

    14For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

  • Heb 11:8-10
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    8By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

    9By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as [in] a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

    10For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker [is] God.

  • Heb 11:37-40
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    37They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;

    38(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and [in] mountains, and [in] dens and caves of the earth.

    39And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:

    40God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

  • Phil 3:20
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    20For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

  • Heb 11:2-3
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    2For by it the elders obtained a good report.

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    11Dearly beloved, I beseech [you] as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

  • 1 Chr 16:19-20
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    19When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it.

    20And [when] they went from nation to nation, and from [one] kingdom to another people;

  • 1 Chr 29:15
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    15For we [are] strangers before thee, and sojourners, as [were] all our fathers: our days on the earth [are] as a shadow, and [there is] none abiding.

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    5And in this [place] again, If they shall enter into my rest.

    6Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:

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    1¶ For we know that if our earthly house of [this] tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

    2For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

  • Heb 11:26-27
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    26Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.

    27By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

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    4They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

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    16‹They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.›

  • 3 John 1:7
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    7Because that for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles.

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    12When they were [but] a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.

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    27And this [word], Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

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    7And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, [is] an exceeding good land.

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    11Behold, [I say, how] they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.

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    34Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.

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    11For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified [are] all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

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    6They were ware of [it], and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about:

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    18While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen [are] temporal; but the things which are not seen [are] eternal.

  • 1 Pet 1:11
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    11Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.

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  • Heb 6:17
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    18Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:

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    14Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast [our] profession.