Hebrews 11:40
Because God had kept some better thing for us, so that it was not possible for them to become complete without us.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
In Context
Cross References
Romans 3:25Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment;
Hebrews 7:19(Because the law made nothing complete), and in its place there is a better hope, through which we come near to God.
Hebrews 8:6But now his position as priest is higher. because through him God has made a better agreement with man, based on the giving of better things.
Hebrews 9:23For this cause it was necessary to make the copies of the things in heaven clean with these offerings; but the things themselves are made clean with better offerings than these.
Hebrews 12:23To the great meeting and church of the first of those who are named in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of good men made complete,
Matthew Henry on Hebrews 11:33-40
Exemplars of Faith. ( a. d. 62.) 32 And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets: 33 Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 34 Quenched 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. 35 Women received their dead raised to… Read the whole commentary →