Hebrews 11:40
God’s Providence holds something better for us, so that not without us would they be perfected.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
In Context
39And all these, having been proven by the testimony of faith, did not receive the Promise.
Cross References
Romans 3:25whom God has offered as a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to reveal his justice for the remission of the former offenses,
Hebrews 7:19For the law led no one to perfection, yet truly it introduced a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
Hebrews 8:6But now he has been granted a better ministry, so much so that he is also the Mediator of a better testament, which has been confirmed by better promises.
Hebrews 9:23Therefore, it is necessary for the examples of heavenly things to be cleansed, just as, indeed, these things were. Yet the heavenly things are themselves better sacrifices than these.
Hebrews 12:23and to the Church of the first-born, those who have been inscribed in the heavens, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the just made perfect,
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 →