Hebrews 13:14
For we have not here an abiding city, but we are earnestly seeking the city that is to be.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
In Context
13Let us then go forth to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:29Indeed, brothers, the time that remains to us has been shortened; so let those who have wives live as if they had none,
Ephesians 2:19Take notice then that no longer are you strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household.
Colossians 3:1If you then are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ abides, seated on the right hand of God.
Hebrews 11:9It was by faith that he sojourned in the promised land as an alien, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, his fellow heirs of the same promise.
Hebrews 12:22On the contrary you are come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to innumerable hosts of angels,
2 Peter 3:13But according to his promise, we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness makes her dwelling.
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 →