Hebrews 13:14
For we have not here an abiding city, but we earnestly seek that which is to come.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
In Context
13Therefore let us go forth to him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:29Now this I say, brethren, that the time is short. The conclusion is, that even they who have wives, should be as though they had not;
Ephesians 2:19So then ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
Colossians 3:1IF ye then be risen with Christ, seek the things which are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
Hebrews 11:9By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the co-heirs of the same promise.
Hebrews 12:22but ye are come unto mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,
2 Peter 3:13But we expect according to his promise new heavens and a new earth in which dwelleth righteousness.
Matthew Henry on Hebrews 13:2-18
Various Duties. ( a. d. 62.) 1 Let brotherly love continue. 2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body. 4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. 5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee,… Read the whole commentary →