Hebrews 11:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

They desire

Hebrews 11:14

Hebrews 12:22

God is

Hebrews 2:11

To be

General references

Mark 10:40

Hebrews 13:14

Bible References

They desire

For men who recognize that show that they are in search of a country of their own.

But you have come up to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to countless angels,

God is

For both he who purifies them and they who are purified spring from one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

To be

But as to the resurrection of the dead, did you never read what was said to you by God,

But as to the dead being raised, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

But that the dead are raised to life, even Moses indicated in the passage about the bush, when he calls the Lord 'the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'

'I am the God of your forefathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.' Moses was terrified and did not dare to look at it.

General references

but as for sitting at my right or at my left, that is not mine to give, but belongs to those for whom it is destined."

for we have no permanent city here on earth, but we are in search of the city that is to come.