Hebrews 11:14

for men who acknowledge this make it manifest that they are seeking elsewhere a country of their own.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

13All these died in the possession of faith. They had not received the promised blessings, but had seen them from a distance and had greeted them, and had acknowledged themselves to be foreigners and strangers here on earth;

15And if they had cherished the remembrance of the country they had left, they would have found an opportunity to return;

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Cross References

Romans 8:23And more than that, we ourselves, though we possess the Spirit as a foretaste and pledge of the glorious future, yet we ourselves inwardly sigh, as we wait and long for open recognition as sons through the deliverance of our bodies.

Philippians 1:23I am in a dilemma, my earnest desire being to depart and be with Christ, for that is far, far better.

Hebrews 13:14For we have no permanent city here, but we are longing for the city which is soon to be ours.

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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