Hebrews 11:40
God planned something better for us, so that without us, they would not be made perfect.
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God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
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Cross References
Romans 3:25For God provided Christ Jesus as a propitiation through faith in his blood. He offered Christ as proof of his justice, because of his disregard of previous sins
Hebrews 7:19(for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, through which we come near to God.
Hebrews 8:6But now Christ has received a much better ministry, just as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which is based on better promises.
Hebrews 9:23Therefore it was necessary that the copies of the things in heaven should be cleansed with these animal sacrifices. However, the heavenly things themselves had to be cleansed with much better sacrifices.
Hebrews 12:23You have come to the congregation of the firstborn, who have been registered in heaven. You have come to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous ones who have been 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 →