Hebrews 11:14

Hebrews 11:14
For those who say such things make it clear that they are searching for a country for themselves.

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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 11:15
And truly if they had kept in mind the country from which they went out, they would have had chances of turning back.

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.

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 13:14
For here we have no fixed resting-place, but our search is for the one which is to come.

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:

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;

Genesis 25:8
And Abraham came to his death, an old man, full of years; and he was put to rest with his people.

Psalms 37:3
Have faith in the Lord, and do good; be at rest in the land, and go after righteousness.

Psalms 119:54
Your rules have been melodies to me, while I have been living in strange lands.

John 8:56
Your father Abraham was full of joy at the hope of seeing my day: he saw it and was glad.

Romans 8:25
But if we have hope for that which we see not, then we will be able to go on waiting for it.

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 11:8
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;

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 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.

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.

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.

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,

Matthew 22:32
I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead but of the living.

Genesis 17:8
And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.

Psalms 105:12
When they were still small in number, and strange in the land;

Psalms 105:13
When they went about from one nation to another, and from one kingdom to another people.

Hebrews 6:15
And so, when he had been waiting calmly for a long time, God's word to him was put into effect.

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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 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.

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.

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,

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2 Corinthians 4:18
While our minds are not on the things which are seen, but on the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are for a time; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

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.

2 Corinthians 5:2
For in this we are crying in weariness, greatly desiring to be clothed with our house from heaven:

1 Samuel 3:18
Then Samuel gave him an account of everything, keeping nothing back. And he said, It is the Lord; let him do what seems good to him.

2 Samuel 15:26
But if he says, I have no delight in you: then, here I am; let him do to me what seems good to him.

Isaiah 57:1
The upright man goes to his death, and no one gives a thought to it; and god-fearing men are taken away, and no one is troubled by it; for the upright man is taken away because of evil-doing, and goes into peace.

Isaiah 57:2
They are at rest in their last resting-places, every one going straight before him.

Luke 2:29
Now you are letting your servant go in peace, O Lord, as you have said;

Acts 7:59
And Stephen, while he was being stoned, made prayer to God, saying, Lord Jesus, take my spirit.

Acts 7:60
And going down on his knees, he said in a loud voice, Lord, do not make them responsible for this sin. And when he had said this, he went to his rest.

2 Corinthians 5:9
For this reason we make it our purpose, in the body or away from it, to be well-pleasing to him.

2 Timothy 4:6
For I am even now being offered, and my end is near.

2 Timothy 4:7
I have made a good fight, I have come to the end of my journey, I have kept the faith:

2 Timothy 4:8
From now on, the crown of righteousness is made ready for me, which the Lord, the upright judge, Will give to me at that day: and not only to me, but to all those who have had love for his revelation.

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Matthew 20:28
Even as the Son of man did not come to have servants, but to be a servant, and to give his life for the salvation of men.

Romans 3:25
Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment;

1 Peter 1:18
Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction,

1 Peter 1:19
But through holy blood, like that of a clean and unmarked lamb, even the blood of Christ:

1 John 1:7
But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.

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