Hebrews 13:14
For we have not here a lasting city, but we seek one that is to come.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
In Context
13Let us go forth therefore to him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:29This therefore I say, brethren; the time is short; it remaineth, that they also who have wives, be as if they had none;
Ephesians 2:19Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners; but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and the domestics of God,
Colossians 3:1Therefore, if you be risen with Christ, seek the things that are above; where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God:
Hebrews 11:9By faith he abode in the land, dwelling in cottages, with Isaac and Jacob, the co-heirs of the same promise.
Hebrews 12:22But you are come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of angels,
2 Peter 3:13But we look for new heavens and a new earth according to his promises, in which justice dwelleth.
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 →