Hebrews 13:14
For here we have not an abiding city, but are seeking for that which is to come.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
In Context
13So then, let us go forth to him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:29But this I say, brethren, the time that remains is short; that both they who have wives may be as though they had none;
Ephesians 2:19So then ye are no longer strangers and sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
Colossians 3:1IF then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, sitting on the right hand of God.
Hebrews 11:9By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise;
Hebrews 12:22But ye have come to mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,
2 Peter 3:13But, according to his promise, we look 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 →