Hebrews 11:14

For they who these things say, make manifest that their city they are seeking.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

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

In Context

13In faith died these all, not having gotten their promise, but from afar had beheld it, and exulted in it, and confessed that strangers they were, and sojourners in the earth.

15But if that city from which they had gone out they desired, they had opportunity to return and go to it.

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Cross References

Romans 8:23and not only they, but we also who have in us the first-fruit of the Spirit, groan within ourselves, and wait for the adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

Philippians 1:23For these two straiten me. I desire to be set free, that I might be with the Meshiha, and this is greatly preferable to me;

Hebrews 13:14For we have no city which is permanent here; but one that is to come we are expecting.

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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