Hebrews 11:10
For he was looking for the strong town, whose builder and maker is God.
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Hebrews 11:10
For he was looking for the strong town, whose builder and maker is God.
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Hebrews 11:8
By faith Abraham did as God said when he was ordered to go out into a place which was to be given to him as a heritage, and went out without knowledge of where he was going.
Hebrews 11:9
By faith he was a wanderer in the land of the agreement, as in a strange land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had a part with him in the same heritage:
Hebrews 11:10
For he was looking for the strong town, whose builder and maker is God.
Hebrews 11:11
And by faith Sarah herself had power to give birth, when she was very old, because she had faith in him who gave his word;
Hebrews 11:12
So that from one man, who was near to death, came children in number as the stars in heaven, or as the sand by the seaside, which may not be numbered.
Hebrews 11:13
All these came to their end in faith, not having had the heritage; but having seen it with delight far away, they gave witness that they were wanderers and not of the earth.
Hebrews 11:14
For those who say such things make it clear that they are searching for a country for themselves.
Hebrews 11:16
But now their desire is for a better country, that is to say, for one in heaven; and so it is no shame to God to be named their God; for he has made ready a town for them.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.
Psalms 39:12
Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.
Genesis 23:4
I am living among you as one from a strange country: give me some land here as my property, so that I may put my dead to rest.
Genesis 28:4
And may God give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed, so that the land of your wanderings, which God gave to Abraham, may be your heritage.
Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.
Psalms 105:12
When they were still small in number, and strange in the land;
John 8:56
Your father Abraham was full of joy at the hope of seeing my day: he saw it and was glad.
Acts 7:5
And God gave him no heritage in it, not even enough to put his foot on: but he gave him an undertaking that he would give it to him and to his children after him, though he had no child at that time.
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Hebrews 13:14
For here we have no fixed resting-place, but our search is for the one which is to come.
2 Corinthians 5:1
For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.
Philippians 3:20
For our country is in heaven; from where the Saviour for whom we are waiting will come, even the Lord Jesus Christ:
John 14:2
In my Father's house are rooms enough; if it was not so, would I have said that I am going to make ready a place for you?
Hebrews 10:13
And has been waiting there from that time, till all who are against him are made a foot-rest for his feet.
Job 19:25
But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust;
Matthew 19:29
And everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will be given a hundred times as much, and have eternal life.
Romans 8:17
And if we are children, we have a right to a part in the heritage; a part in the things of God, together with Christ; so that if we have a part in his pain, we will in the same way have a part in his glory.
Romans 8:19
For the strong desire of every living thing is waiting for the revelation of the sons of God.
Hebrews 3:1
For this reason, holy brothers, marked out to have a part in heaven, give thought to Jesus the representative and high priest of our faith;
Hebrews 8:2
As a servant of the holy things and of the true Tent, which was put up by God, not by man.
Hebrews 11:26
Judging a part in the shame of Christ to be better than all the wealth of Egypt; for he was looking forward to his reward.
1 Peter 1:4
And a heritage fair, holy and for ever new, waiting in heaven for you,
2 Peter 3:13
But having faith in his word, we are looking for a new heaven and a new earth, which will be the resting-place of righteousness.
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Hebrews 12:22
But you have come to the mountain of Zion, to the place of the living God, to the Jerusalem which is in heaven, and to an army of angels which may not be numbered,
Hebrews 12:23
To the great meeting and church of the first of those who are named in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of good men made complete,
Revelation 21:2
And I saw the holy town, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, like a bride made beautiful for her husband.
Galatians 4:26
But the Jerusalem on high is free, which is our mother.
Revelation 21:10
And he took me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and let me see the holy town Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
Revelation 21:11
Having the glory of God: and her light was like a stone of great price, a jasper stone, clear as glass:
Revelation 21:14
And the wall of the town had twelve bases, and on them the twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.
Revelation 3:12
Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the house of my God, and he will go out no more: and I will put on him the name of my God, and the name of the town of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my new name.
Isaiah 14:32
What answer, then, will my people give to the representatives of the nation? That the Lord is the builder of Zion, and she will be a safe place for the poor of his people.
Revelation 21:19
The bases of the wall of the town had ornaments of all sorts of beautiful stones. The first base was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;
Revelation 21:20
The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst.
Revelation 21:21
And the twelve doors were twelve pearls; every door was made of one pearl; and the street of the town was clear gold, as clear as glass.
Psalms 87:3
Noble things are said of you, O town of God. (Selah.)
Isaiah 52:1
Awake! awake! put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the holy town: for from now there will never again come into you the unclean and those without circumcision.
Revelation 22:19
And if any man takes away from the words of this book, God will take away from him his part in the tree of life and the holy town, even the things which are in this book.
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Hebrews 11:15
And truly if they had kept in mind the country from which they went out, they would have had chances of turning back.
Isaiah 26:4
Let your hope be in the Lord for ever: for the Lord Jah is an unchanging Rock.
1 Peter 2:11
My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;
Psalms 119:19
I am living in a strange land: do not let your teachings be kept secret from me.
2 Corinthians 5:6
So, then, we are ever without fear, and though conscious that while we are in the body we are away from the Lord,
Hebrews 2:16
For, truly, he does not take on the life of angels, but that of the seed of Abraham.
Hebrews 6:12
So that you may not be slow in heart, but may take as your example those to whom God has given their heritage, because of their faith and their long waiting.
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the sign that the things not seen are true.
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, being moved by the fear of God, made ready an ark for the salvation of his family, because God had given him news of things which were not seen at the time; and through it the world was judged by him, and he got for his heritage the righteousness which is by faith.
Hebrews 11:35
Women had their dead given back to them living; others let themselves be cruelly attacked, having no desire to go free, so that they might have a better life to come;
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Hebrews 11:17
By faith Abraham made an offering of Isaac, when he was tested: and he with whom the agreement had been made gave up as an offering the only son of his body,
Hebrews 11:18
Of whom it had been said, From Isaac will your seed take their name:
Hebrews 11:19
Judging that God was able to give life even to the dead; and because of this he did get him back as if from death.
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Genesis 25:27
And the boys came to full growth; and Esau became a man of the open country, an expert bowman; but Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
Jeremiah 35:7
And you are to make no houses, or put in seed, or get vine-gardens planted, or have any: but all your days you are to go on living in tents, so that you may have a long life in the land where you are living as in a strange country.
Leviticus 23:42
For seven days you will be living in tents; all those who are Israelites by birth are to make tents their living-places:
Leviticus 23:43
So that future generations may keep in mind how I gave the children of Israel tents as their living-places when I took them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
Nehemiah 8:14
And they saw that it was recorded in the law that the Lord had given orders by Moses, that the children of Israel were to have tents for their living-places in the feast of the seventh month:
Nehemiah 8:15
And that they were to give out an order, and make it public in all their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, Go out to the mountain and get olive branches and branches of field olives and of myrtle, and palm branches and branches of thick trees, to make tents, as it says in the book.
Nehemiah 8:16
And the people went out and got them and made themselves tents, every one on the roof of his house, and in the open spaces and in the open squares of the house of God, and in the wide place of the water-doorway, and the wide place of the doorway of Ephraim.
Jeremiah 35:10
But we have been living in tents, and have done everything which Jonadab our father gave us orders to do.
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Genesis 12:7
And the Lord came to Abram, and said, I will give all this land to your seed; then Abram made an altar there to the Lord who had let himself be seen by him.
Genesis 13:17
Come, go through all the land from one end to the other for I will give it to you.
Psalms 105:6
O you seed of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his loved ones.
Psalms 105:7
He is the Lord our God: he is judge of all the earth.
Psalms 105:8
He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;
Psalms 105:9
The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;
Psalms 105:10
And he gave it to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an eternal agreement;
Psalms 105:11
Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, the measured line of your heritage:
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Psalms 136:5
To him who by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
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Isaiah 45:18
For this is the word of the Lord who made the heavens; he is God; the maker and designer of the earth; who made it not to be a waste, but as a living-place for man: I am the Lord, and there is no other.
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Acts 12:1
Now, about that time, Herod the king made cruel attacks on the Christians.
Acts 12:2
And he put James, the brother of John, to death with the sword.
Acts 12:3
And when he saw that this was pleasing to the Jews he went on to take Peter in addition. This was at the time of the feast of unleavened bread.
Acts 12:4
And having taken him, he put him in prison, with four bands of armed men to keep watch over him; his purpose being to take him out to the people after the Passover.
Acts 12:5
So Peter was kept in prison: but the church made strong prayer to God for him.
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Acts 19:24
For there was a certain man named Demetrius, a silver-worker, who made silver boxes for the images of Diana, and gave no small profit to the workmen;
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1 Corinthians 3:10
In the measure of the grace given to me, I, as a wise master-builder, have put the base in position, and another goes on building on it. But let every man take care what he puts on it.
1 Corinthians 3:11
For there is no other base for the building but that which has been put down, which is Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 2:20
Resting on the base of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief keystone,
2 Timothy 2:19
But God's strong base is unchanging, having this sign, The Lord has knowledge of those who are his: and, Let everyone by whom the name of the Lord is named be turned away from evil.
1 Peter 2:5
You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.
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