Hebrews 11:15

And if they had called to mind that from whence they went out, they had had opportunity to have returned;

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.

In Context

14For they who say such things shew clearly that they seek [their] country.

16but now they seek a better, that is, a heavenly; wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he has prepared for them a city.

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Cross References

Genesis 12:10And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was grievous in the land.

Genesis 31:18and carried away all his cattle, and all his property that he had acquired the cattle of his possessions that he had acquired in Padan-Aram, to go to Isaac his father, into the land of Canaan.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 11:5-32

Exemplars of Faith. ( a. d. 62.) 4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. 5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that… Read the whole commentary →

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