Hebrews 11:14

Those who speak like this show plainly that they are seeking their homeland.

Open English Bible (US)

In The King James Version

For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.

In Context

13All these died sustained by faith. They did not obtain the promised blessings, but they saw them from a distance and welcomed the sight, and they acknowledged themselves to be only foreigners and strangers on the earth.

15If they had been thinking of the land that they had left, they could have found opportunities to return.

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Cross References

Romans 8:23And not nature only; but we ourselves also, though we have already a first gift of the Spirit – we ourselves are inwardly groaning, while we eagerly await our full adoption as sons – the redemption of our bodies.

Philippians 1:23My own desire is to depart and be with Christ, for this would be far better.

Hebrews 13:14for here we have no permanent city, but are looking for the city that is to be.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 11:5-32

Exemplars of Faith. ( a. d. 62.) 4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. 5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that… Read the whole commentary →

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