Hebrews 11:40
God, having provided something better for us, that apart from us they might not be made perfect.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
In Context
39and all these, having been testified to through faith, did not receive the promise,
Cross References
Romans 3:25whom God set forth [as] a propitiatory covering, through faith in His blood, for the showing forth of His righteousness, because of the passing over of the former sins in the forbearance of God—
Hebrews 7:19(for nothing did the Law perfect), and the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
Hebrews 8:6but now He has obtained a more excellent service, how much He is also mediator of a better covenant, which has been sanctioned on better promises,
Hebrews 9:23[It is] necessary, therefore, the pattern indeed of the things in the heavens to be purified with these, and the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these;
Hebrews 12:23to the assembly-place and Assembly of the Firstborn registered in Heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men made perfect,
Matthew Henry on Hebrews 11:33-40
Exemplars of Faith. ( a. d. 62.) 32 And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets: 33 Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. 35 Women received their dead raised to… Read the whole commentary →