Hebrews 13:14

KJV1611 – Modern English

For here we do not have a continuing city, but we seek the one to come.

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  • Phil 3:20 : 20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
  • Heb 12:22 : 22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels,
  • Mic 2:10 : 10 Arise and depart, for this is not your rest; because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a severe destruction.
  • 1 Cor 7:29 : 29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short; so that from now on, even those who have wives should be as though they had none,
  • 2 Cor 4:17-5:8 : 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 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 temporary; but the things which are not seen are eternal. 1 For we know that if our earthly body, this tabernacle, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our dwelling which is from heaven: 3 If indeed, being clothed, we shall not be found naked. 4 For we who are in this tabernacle groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but to be clothed, so that mortality might be swallowed up by life. 5 Now he who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. 6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, I say, and prefer to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
  • Eph 2:19 : 19 Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God;
  • Col 3:1-3 : 1 If you then are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For you are dead, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
  • Heb 4:9 : 9 There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.
  • Heb 11:9-9 : 9 By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: 10 For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
  • Heb 11:12-16 : 12 Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the seashore innumerable. 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, were assured of them, embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland. 15 And truly, if they had called to mind that country from which they had come, they might have had opportunity to return. 16 But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country: therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
  • 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 But the end of all things is at hand: be therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
  • 2 Pet 3:13-14 : 13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness dwells. 14 Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found by him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

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