Hebrews 11:15
If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
In Context
14For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.
Cross References
Genesis 12:10There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.
Genesis 31:18and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.
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 →