Hebrews 13:14
For here we have no enduring city, but we seek that which is coming.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
In Context
13Let us therefore go forth to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:29But this I say, brothers, the time is shortened. It is the remaining, so that also those who have wives may be as not having,
Ephesians 2:19So then ye are no more alien and foreign, but fellow citizens of the sanctified, and belonging to the household of God.
Colossians 3:1If therefore ye were raised with the Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.
Hebrews 11:9By faith he lived alien in the land of promise as a foreigner, having dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the fellow heirs of the same promise.
Hebrews 12:22But ye have come to mount Zion, and to the city of a living God, a heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of heavenly agents,
2 Peter 3:13But we anticipate a new heavens and a new earth according to his promise, in which righteousness dwells.
Matthew Henry on Hebrews 13:2-18
Various Duties. ( a. d. 62.) 1 Let brotherly love continue. 2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body. 4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. 5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee,… Read the whole commentary →