Hebrews 13:14
For we have not here an abiding city, but we seek after the city which is to come.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
In Context
13Let us therefore go forth unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:29But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none;
Ephesians 2:19So then ye are no more strangers and sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,
Colossians 3:1If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
Hebrews 11:9By faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
Hebrews 12:22but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels,
2 Peter 3:13But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein 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 →