Hebrews 11:10

For he looked for a citie hauing a foundation, whose builder and maker is God.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

In Context

9By faith he abode in the land of promise, as in a strange countrey, as one that dwelt in tents with Isaac and Iacob heires with him of the same promise.

11Through faith Sara also receiued strength to conceiue seede, and was deliuered of a childe when she was past age, because she iudged him faithfull which had promised.

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Cross References

John 14:2In my Fathers house are many dwelling places: if it were not so, I would haue tolde you: I go to prepare a place for you.

Philippians 3:20But our conuersation is in heauen, from whence also we looke for the Sauiour, euen the Lord Iesus Christ,

Hebrews 12:22But ye are come vnto the mount Sion, and to the citie of the liuing God, the celestiall Hierusalem, and to ye company of innumerable Angels,

Hebrews 13:14For here haue we no continuing citie: but we seeke one to come.

Revelation 21:10And he caried me away in the spirit to a great: and an hie mountaine, and he shewed me that great citie, that holie Hierusalem, descending out of heauen from God,

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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