Hebrews 11:14

They that saye soche thinges declare that they seke a coutre.

William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)

In The King James Version

For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.

In Context

13And they all dyed in fayth and receaved not the promyses: but sawe them a farre of and beleved them and saluted them: and confessed that they were straungers and pilgrems on the erthe.

15Also yf they had bene myndfull of that countre from whence they came oute they had leasure to have returned agayne.

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Cross References

Romans 8:23Not they only but even we also which have the fyrst frutes of the sprite morne in oureselves and wayte for the (adopcio) and loke for the delivraunce of oure bodyes.

Hebrews 13:14For here have we no continuynge citie: but we seke one to come.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 11:5-32

Exemplars of Faith. ( a. d. 62.) 4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. 5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that… Read the whole commentary →

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