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.
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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.
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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 11:15
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:
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 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.
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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:
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 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.
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.
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;
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.
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.
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,
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 37:3
Have faith in the Lord, and do good; be at rest in the land, and go after righteousness.
Psalms 105:12
When they were still small in number, and strange in the land;
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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Genesis 24:6
And Abraham said, Take care that you do not let my son go back to that land.
Genesis 24:7
The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and made an oath to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: he will send his angel before you and give you a wife for my son in that land.
Genesis 24:8
And if the woman will not come with you, then you are free from this oath; only do not take my son back there.
Genesis 12:10
And because there was little food to be had in that land, he went down into Egypt.
Genesis 26:3
Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham;
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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.
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Numbers 14:4
And they said to one another, Let us make a captain over us, and go back to Egypt.
Nehemiah 9:17
And would not do them, and gave no thought to the wonders you had done among them; but made their necks stiff, and turning away from you, made a captain over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt: but you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.
Acts 7:39
By whom our fathers would not be controlled; but they put him on one side, turning back in their hearts to Egypt,
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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.
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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.
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 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 5:2
For in this we are crying in weariness, greatly desiring to be clothed with our house from heaven:
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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Acts 18:21
And went from them, saying, I will come back to you if God lets me; and he took ship from Ephesus.
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Hebrews 10:38
But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him.
Hebrews 10:39
But we are not of those who go back to destruction; but of those who have faith even to the salvation of the soul.
2 Peter 2:21
For it would have been better for them to have had no knowledge of the way of righteousness, than to go back again from the holy law which was given to them, after having knowledge of it.
2 Peter 2:22
They are an example of that true saying, The dog has gone back to the food it had put out, and the pig which had been washed to its rolling in the dirty earth.
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