Hebrews 13:14
For we have no permanent city, but we seek the city which is to come.
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
In Context
13Therefore let us go out to Him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:29But this I say, brothers, the time has been shortened; so that from now on even those having wives should be as though they had none,
Ephesians 2:19So then, you are no longer strangers and aliens, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
Colossians 3:1If then you have been raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.
Hebrews 11:9By faith he migrated into a land of promise as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the fellow heirs of the same promise;
Hebrews 12:22But you have come to Zion, to the Mountain and 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 in which righteousness dwells. 1 Be Steadfast
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 →