Hebrews 13:14
for here we have no permanent city, but are looking for the city that is to be.
Open English Bible (UK)
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 the same reproaches as he;
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:29What I mean, friends, is this – the time is short. Meanwhile, let those who have wives live as if they had none,
Ephesians 2:19It follows, then, that you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but are fellow citizens with Christ’s people and members of God’s household.
Colossians 3:1Since, therefore, you were raised to life with the Christ, seek for the things that are above; for it is there that the Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
Hebrews 11:9It was faith that made him go to live as an emigrant in the promised land – as in a strange country – living there in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who shared the promise with him.
Hebrews 12:22No, but it is to Mount Zion that you have drawn near, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to countless hosts of angels,
2 Peter 3:13but we look for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness will have its home, in fulfilment of the promise of God.
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 →