Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Bible References

General references

Hebrews 4:9
Therefore a celebration of a sabbath remains to the people of God.
Hebrews 11:9
By faith he dwelt in the land of promise, as a strange land, having dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, co-heirs of the same promise:
Hebrews 12:22
But ye have come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,
Micah 2:10
Arise ye, and go, for this is not the rest: because it was defiled it will destroy, and with a sore destruction.
1 Corinthians 7:29
And this I say, brethren, the time is restricted; as to the rest, that they also having wives should be as not having;
2 Corinthians 4:17
For the present moment the lightness of our pressure works to us an eternal weight of glory, as eminence upon eminence;
2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if our earthly house of the tent were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Philippians 3:20
For our citizenship is in the heavens; from whence we also expect the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
1 Peter 4:7
And the end of all has drawn near: be ye therefore of sound mind, and live abstemiously in prayers.
2 Peter 3:13
But we expect new heavens and a new earth, according to promise, in which dwells justice.