Hebrews 11:14

Now they who speak thus, shew evidently that they are in earnest search of their native country.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

13All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but beholding them at a great distance, though believing and embracing them, and confessing that they were strangers and sojourners in the land.

15And if indeed they had fixed their minds on that from whence they had gone forth, they might have had opportunity to go back to it again.

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Cross References

Romans 8:23And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan in ourselves, expecting the adoption, the redemption of our body.

Philippians 1:23For I am in a strait between the two, having an earnest longing to be dissolved, and to be with Christ, for this is far, far better:

Hebrews 13:14For we have not here an abiding city, but we earnestly seek that which is to come.

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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