Hebrews 13:14

For we have not here a city dwelling, but we seek a city to coming. [+Soothly we have not here a dwelling city, but we seek a city to come.]

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

In Context

13Therefore go we out to him without the castles, bearing his reproof. (And so let us go out to him outside the camp, carrying the same rebuke or sharing the same reproach.)

15Therefore by him offer we a sacrifice of praising (for)evermore to God, that is to say, the fruit of (our) lips acknowledging to his name.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 7:29Therefore, brethren, I say this thing, The time is short. Another is this, that they that have wives, be as though they had none;

Ephesians 2:19Therefore now ye be not guests and strangers, but ye be citizens of saints, and [the] household members of God; (And so now ye be not guests and strangers, but ye be citizens along with God’s people, and members of God’s household, or of God’s family.)

Colossians 3:1Therefore if ye have risen together with Christ, seek ye those things that be above, where Christ is sitting on the right half of God, (or at the right hand, or on the right side, of God).

Hebrews 11:9By faith he dwelt in the land of promise, as in an alien land, (or like in a strange, or a foreign, land), dwelling in little houses with Isaac and Jacob, even-heirs of the same promise.

Hebrews 12:22But ye have come nigh to the hill [of] Sion, and to the city of God living, [or and to the city of living God], (or But ye have come near to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God), the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the multitude of many thousand angels,

2 Peter 3:13Also we abide by his promises new heavens and (a) new earth, in which rightwiseness dwelleth.

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 →

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