Hebrews 11:16

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But 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.

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  • Exod 3:6 : 6 He added,“I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Then Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.
  • Heb 2:11 : 11 For indeed he who makes holy and those being made holy all have the same origin, and so he is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,
  • Heb 11:10 : 10 For he was looking forward to the city with firm foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
  • Heb 13:14 : 14 For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.
  • Exod 3:15 : 15 God also said to Moses,“You must say this to the Israelites,‘The LORD– the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob– has sent me to you. This is my name forever, and this is my memorial from generation to generation.’
  • Gen 17:7-8 : 7 I will confirm my covenant as a perpetual covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you. 8 I will give the whole land of Canaan– the land where you are now residing– to you and your descendants after you as a permanent possession. I will be their God.”
  • Isa 41:8-9 : 8 The Lord Encourages His People“You, my servant Israel, Jacob whom I have chosen, offspring of Abraham my friend, 9 you whom I am bringing back from the earth’s extremities, and have summoned from the remote regions– I told you,“You are my servant.” I have chosen you and not rejected you. 10 Don’t be afraid, for I am with you! Don’t be frightened, for I am your God! I strengthen you– yes, I help you– yes, I uphold you with my saving right hand!
  • Matt 25:34 : 34 Then the king will say to those on his right,‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
  • Mark 8:38 : 38 For if anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
  • Heb 11:14 : 14 For those who speak in such a way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.
  • John 14:2 : 2 There are many dwelling places in my Father’s house. Otherwise, I would have told you, because I am going away to make ready a place for you.
  • Acts 7:32 : 32 ‘I am the God of your forefathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses began to tremble and did not dare to look more closely.
  • Phil 3:20 : 20 But our citizenship is in heaven– and we also eagerly await a savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
  • 2 Tim 4:18 : 18 The Lord will deliver me from every evil deed and will bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory for ever and ever! Amen.
  • Gen 28:13 : 13 and the LORD stood at its top. He said,“I am the LORD, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the ground you are lying on.
  • Luke 12:32 : 32 “Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father is well pleased to give you the kingdom.
  • Luke 20:37 : 37 But even Moses revealed that the dead are raised in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.
  • Heb 12:22 : 22 But you have come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the assembly
  • Mark 12:26 : 26 Now as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him,‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?
  • Jer 31:1 : 1 At that time I will be the God of all the clans of Israel and they will be my people. I, the LORD, affirm it!”
  • Matt 22:31-32 : 31 Now as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, 32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead but of the living!”
  • Gen 26:24 : 24 The LORD appeared to him that night and said,“I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham.”
  • Exod 4:5 : 5 “that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”

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    13 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.

    14 For those who speak in such a way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.

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

  • Heb 11:8-10
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    8 By 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.

    9 By 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.

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

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

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

  • Heb 11:37-40
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    37 They 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.

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

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

  • Heb 11:25-27
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    25 choosing rather to be ill-treated with the people of God than to enjoy sin’s fleeting pleasure.

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

    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.

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    11 For indeed he who makes holy and those being made holy all have the same origin, and so he is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,

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

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

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

  • Phil 3:20
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    20 But our citizenship is in heaven– and we also eagerly await a savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

  • Heb 12:22-23
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    22 But you have come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the assembly

    23 and congregation of the firstborn, who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous, who have been made perfect,

  • Heb 11:5-6
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    5 By 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.

    6 Now 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.

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    2 For in this earthly house we groan, because we desire to put on our heavenly dwelling,

  • Gen 11:4
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    4 Then they said,“Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth.”

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

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    9 But in your case, dear friends, even though we speak like this, we are convinced of better things relating to salvation.

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  • Deut 6:10
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    10 Exhortation to Worship the Lord Exclusively Then when the LORD your God brings you to the land he promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give you– a land with large, fine cities you did not build,

  • Heb 6:5-6
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    5 tasted the good word of God and the miracles of the coming age,

    6 and then have committed apostasy, to renew them again to repentance, since they are crucifying the Son of God for themselves all over again and holding him up to contempt.

  • Heb 6:17
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    17 In 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,

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

  • Ezek 11:16
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    16 “Therefore say:‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Although I have removed them far away among the nations and have dispersed them among the countries, I have been a little sanctuary for them among the lands where they have gone.’

  • Heb 8:6
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    6 But now Jesus has obtained a superior ministry, since the covenant that he mediates is also better and is enacted on better promises.

  • Heb 6:13
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    13 Now when God made his promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,

  • 1 Pet 1:4
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    4 that is, into an inheritance imperishable, undefiled, and unfading. It is reserved in heaven for you,

  • Ps 115:2
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    2 Why should the nations say,“Where is their God?”

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

  • Heb 12:28
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    28 So since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us give thanks, and through this let us offer worship pleasing to God in devotion and awe.

  • Heb 12:26
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    26 Then his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised,“I will once more shake not only the earth but heaven too.”

  • Exod 6:4
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    4 I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they were living as resident foreigners.

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

  • Heb 10:34
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    34 For in fact you shared the sufferings of those in prison, and you accepted the confiscation of your belongings with joy, because you knew that you certainly had a better and lasting possession.

  • Heb 9:24
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    24 For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands– the representation of the true sanctuary– but into heaven itself, and he appears now in God’s presence for us.

  • Eph 2:19
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    19 So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,

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