Hebrews 13:14
for we have not here an abiding city, but we seek the coming one.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
In Context
13therefore let us go forth to him without the camp, bearing his reproach:
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:29But this I say, brethren, the time is straitened. For the rest, that they who have wives, be as not having [any]:
Ephesians 2:19So then ye are no longer strangers and foreigners, but ye are fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,
Colossians 3:1If therefore ye have been raised with the Christ, seek the things [which are] above, where the Christ is, sitting at [the] right hand of God:
Hebrews 11:9By faith he sojourned as a stranger in the land of promise as a foreign country, having dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with [him] of the same promise;
Hebrews 12:22but ye have come to mount Zion; and to [the] city of [the] living God, heavenly Jerusalem; and to myriads of angels,
2 Peter 3:13But, according to his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness.
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 →