Hebrews 11:40
God provydinge a better thinge for vs that they with out vs shuld not be made parfecte.
Tyndale New Testament
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 these all thorow fayth obtayned good reporte and receaved not the promes
Cross References
Romans 3:25whom God hath made a seate of mercy thorow faith in his bloud to shewe the rightewesnes which before him is of valoure in that he forgeveth the synnes that are passed which God dyd suffre
Hebrews 7:19For the lawe made nothynge parfecte: but was an introduccion of a better hope by which hope we drawe nye vnto god.
Hebrews 8:6Now hath he obtayned a more excellent office in as moche as he is the mediator of a better testament which was made for better promyses.
Hebrews 9:23It is then nede that the similitudes of hevenly thynges be purified with soche thynges: but the hevenly thynges them selves are purified with better sacrifises then are those.
Hebrews 12:23and vnto the congregacion of the fyrst borne sonnes which are writte in heven and to God the iudge of all and to the spretes of iust and parfecte men
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 →