Hebrews 11:40
because God had provided the aid for us; so that without us they should not be perfected.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
In Context
39And all these, of whose faith there is testimony, received not the promise:
Cross References
Romans 3:25whom God hath preconstituted a propitiation, by faith in his blood, because of our sins, which we before committed,
Hebrews 7:19For the law perfected nothing; but in the place of it there came in a hope, which is better than it, and by which we draw near to God.
Hebrews 8:6But now, Jesus the Messiah hath received a ministry which is better than that: as also the covenant, of which he is made the Mediator, is better, and is given with better promises than the former.
Hebrews 9:23For it was necessary that these, the emblems of heavenly things, should be purified, with those things; but the heavenly things themselves, with sacrifices superior to them.
Hebrews 12:23and to the church of the first-born, who are enrolled in heaven and to God the judge of all; and to the spirits of the just, who are perfected;
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 →