Hebrews 11:13

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These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth.

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  • Gen 23:4 : 4 “I am a foreign resident, a temporary settler, among you. Grant me ownership of a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead.”
  • Ps 39:12 : 12 Hear my prayer, O LORD! Listen to my cry for help! Do not ignore my sobbing! For I am a foreign resident with you, a temporary settler, just as all my ancestors were.
  • John 8:56 : 56 Your father Abraham was overjoyed to see my day, and he saw it and was glad.”
  • Heb 11:39 : 39 And these all were commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised.
  • Heb 11:27 : 27 By faith he left Egypt without fearing the king’s anger, for he persevered as though he could see the one who is invisible.
  • Gen 49:18 : 18 I wait for your deliverance, O LORD.
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 Jacob said to Pharaoh,“All the years of my travels are 130. All the years of my life have been few and painful; the years of my travels are not as long as those of my ancestors.”
  • Gen 48:21 : 21 Then Israel said to Joseph,“I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your fathers.
  • Gen 49:10 : 10 The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs; the nations will obey him.
  • Gen 25:8 : 8 Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man who had lived a full life. He joined his ancestors.
  • Gen 27:2-4 : 2 Isaac said,“Since I am so old, I could die at any time. 3 Therefore, take your weapons– your quiver and your bow– and go out into the open fields and hunt down some wild game for me. 4 Then prepare for me some tasty food, the kind I love, and bring it to me. Then I will eat it so that I may bless you before I die.”
  • Gen 49:33 : 33 When Jacob finished giving these instructions to his sons, he pulled his feet up onto the bed, breathed his last breath, and went to his people.
  • Gen 50:24 : 24 Then Joseph said to his brothers,“I am about to die. But God will surely come to you and lead you up from this land to the land he swore on oath to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
  • Num 24:17 : 17 ‘I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not close at hand. A star will march forth out of Jacob, and a scepter will rise out of Israel. He will crush the skulls of Moab, and the heads of all the sons of Sheth.
  • 1 Chr 29:14-15 : 14 “But who am I and who are my people, that we should be in a position to contribute this much? Indeed, everything comes from you, and we have simply given back to you what is yours. 15 For we are resident foreigners and temporary settlers in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.
  • Job 19:25 : 25 As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that as the last he will stand upon the earth.
  • Ps 119:19 : 19 I am a resident foreigner in this land. Do not hide your commands from me!
  • Matt 13:17 : 17 For I tell you the truth, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.
  • John 12:41 : 41 Isaiah said these things because he saw Christ’s glory, and spoke about him.
  • Rom 4:21 : 21 He was fully convinced that what God promised he was also able to do.
  • Rom 8:24 : 24 For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees?
  • Eph 2:19 : 19 So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,
  • 1 Pet 1:10-12 : 10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets who predicted the grace that would come to you searched and investigated carefully. 11 They probed into what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating when he testified beforehand about the sufferings appointed for Christ and his subsequent glory. 12 They were shown that they were serving not themselves but you, in regard to the things now announced to you through those who proclaimed the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven– things angels long to catch a glimpse of.
  • 1 Pet 1:17 : 17 And if you address as Father the one who impartially judges according to each one’s work, live out the time of your temporary residence here in reverence.
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,
  • 1 John 3:19 : 19 And by this we will know that we are of the truth and will convince our conscience in his presence,
  • Gen 49:28 : 28 These are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them when he blessed them. He gave each of them an appropriate blessing.

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  • Heb 11:37-40
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    37They were stoned, sawed apart, murdered with the sword; they went about in sheepskins and goatskins; they were destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

    38(the world was not worthy of them); they wandered in deserts and mountains and caves and openings in the earth.

    39And these all were commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised.

    40For God had provided something better for us, so that they would be made perfect together with us.

  • Heb 11:8-12
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    8By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he would later receive as an inheritance, and he went out without understanding where he was going.

    9By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.

    10For he was looking forward to the city with firm foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

    11By faith, even though Sarah herself was barren and he was too old, he received the ability to procreate, because he regarded the one who had given the promise to be trustworthy.

    12So in fact children were fathered by one man– and this one as good as dead– like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand on the seashore.

  • Heb 11:14-19
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    14For those who speak in such a way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.

    15In fact, if they had been thinking of the land that they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.

    16But as it is, they aspire to a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

    17By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises, yet he was ready to offer up his only son.

    18God had told him,“Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,”

    19and he reasoned that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense he received him back from there.

  • Heb 11:1-6
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    1People Commended for Their Faith Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, being convinced of what we do not see.

    2For by it the people of old received God’s commendation.

    3By faith we understand that the worlds were set in order at God’s command, so that the visible has its origin in the invisible.

    4By faith Abel offered God a greater sacrifice than Cain, and through his faith he was commended as righteous, because God commended him for his offerings. And through his faith he still speaks, though he is dead.

    5By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death, and he was not to be found because God took him up. For before his removal he had been commended as having pleased God.

    6Now without faith it is impossible to please him, for the one who approaches God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

  • Heb 13:13-14
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    13We must go out to him, then, outside the camp, bearing the abuse he experienced.

    14For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.

  • Heb 11:25-28
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    25choosing rather to be ill-treated with the people of God than to enjoy sin’s fleeting pleasure.

    26He regarded abuse suffered for Christ to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for his eyes were fixed on the reward.

    27By faith he left Egypt without fearing the king’s anger, for he persevered as though he could see the one who is invisible.

    28By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the one who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.

  • Heb 11:30-34
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    30By faith the walls of Jericho fell after the people marched around them for seven days.

    31By faith Rahab the prostitute escaped the destruction of the disobedient, because she welcomed the spies in peace.

    32And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets.

    33Through faith they conquered kingdoms, administered justice, gained what was promised, shut the mouths of lions,

    34quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, gained strength in weakness, became mighty in battle, put foreign armies to flight,

  • Heb 6:12-13
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    12so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherit the promises.

    13Now when God made his promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,

  • Heb 10:23
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    23And let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we confess, for the one who made the promise is trustworthy.

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    15And so by persevering, Abraham inherited the promise.

  • 1 Pet 1:8
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    8You have not seen him, but you love him. You do not see him now but you believe in him, and so you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,

  • Heb 11:22
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    22By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, mentioned the exodus of the sons of Israel and gave instructions about his burial.

  • Heb 4:6
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    6Therefore it remains for some to enter it, yet those to whom it was previously proclaimed did not enter because of disobedience.

  • Heb 3:18-19
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    18And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient?

    19So we see that they could not enter because of unbelief.

  • Heb 10:36
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    36For you need endurance in order to do God’s will and so receive what is promised.

  • Heb 7:6
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    6But Melchizedek who does not share their ancestry collected a tithe from Abraham and blessed the one who possessed the promise.

  • 1 Chr 29:15
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    15For we are resident foreigners and temporary settlers in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.

  • Rom 4:17
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    17(as it is written,“I have made you the father of many nations”). He is our father in the presence of God whom he believed– the God who makes the dead alive and summons the things that do not yet exist as though they already do.

  • 1 Pet 2:11
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    11Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,

  • 2 Cor 5:7
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    7for we live by faith, not by sight.

  • Heb 13:2
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    2Do not neglect hospitality, because through it some have entertained angels without knowing it.

  • Heb 6:17
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    17In the same way God wanted to demonstrate more clearly to the heirs of the promise that his purpose was unchangeable, and so he intervened with an oath,

  • 1 Cor 10:11
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    11These things happened to them as examples and were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.