Hebrews 13:14
For we have no permanent city here, but we are longing for the city which is soon to be ours.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
In Context
13Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp, sharing the insults directed against Him.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:29Yet of this I warn you, brethren: the time has been shortened--so that henceforth those who have wives should be as though they had none,
Ephesians 2:19You are therefore no longer mere foreigners or persons excluded from civil rights. On the contrary you share citizenship with God's people and are members of His family.
Colossians 3:1If however you have risen with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, enthroned at God's right hand.
Hebrews 11:9Through faith he came and made his home for a time in a land which had been promised to him, as if in a foreign country, living in tents together with Isaac and Jacob, sharers with him in the same promise;
Hebrews 12:22On the contrary you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the ever-living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to countless hosts of angels,
2 Peter 3:13But in accordance with His promise we are expecting new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness will dwell.
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 →