Hebrews 11:40
since it was for us that God had in store some better thing, so that apart from us they should not be perfected.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
In Context
39Yet, though these all had witness borne to them by their faith, they received not the promise;
Cross References
Romans 3:25For God openly set him forth for himself as an offering of atonement through faith, by means of his blood, in order to show forth his righteousness - since in his forbearance he had passed over the sins previously committed - to show forth his righteousness,
Hebrews 7:19(for the Law brought nothing to perfection); and there is the bringing in of a better hope by which we draw near to God;
Hebrews 8:6But Jesus has obtained a better ministry, by so much as he is also Mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted upon better promises.
Hebrews 9:23While, then, it was necessary that the copies of the heavenly things should be cleansed by such sacrifices, the heavenly things themselves required nobler sacrifices than these.
Hebrews 12:23to the festal assemblage and church of the firstborn, registered in heaven, to a Judge who is God of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
Matthew Henry on Hebrews 11:33-40
Exemplars of Faith. ( a. d. 62.) 32 And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets: 33 Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. 35 Women received their dead raised to… Read the whole commentary →