Hebrews 13:14
For here we do not have a lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.
Text-Critical English 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 to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:29But I say this, brothers: The time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as though they had none,
Ephesians 2:19So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
Colossians 3:1If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
Hebrews 11:9By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise.
Hebrews 12:22But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angels,
2 Peter 3:13But, according to his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.
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 →