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.

God is

Bible References

They desire

Hebrews 11:14
For they saying such things show clearly that they seek a country.
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,

God is

Hebrews 2:11
For be consecrating and they being consecrated all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

To be

Genesis 17:7
And I set up my covenant between me and between thee, and between thy seed after thee to their generations for a covenant of eternity; to be a God to thee and to thy seed after thee.
Exodus 3:6
And he will say, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaak and the God of Jacob. And Moses will hide his face, for he will be afraid to look to God.
Isaiah 41:8
And thou, Israel, my servant Jacob whom I chose thee, the seed of Abraham my beloved:
Jeremiah 31:1
In that time, says Jehovah, I will be for God to all the families of Israel, and they shall be to me for a people.
Matthew 22:31
And for the rising up of the dead, read ye not that spoken by God, saying,
Mark 12:26
And concerning the dead that they are raised: have ye not read in the book of Moses, at the bramble, how God spake to him, I the God of Abraham, and God of Isaac, and God of Jacob
Luke 20:37
And that the dead are raised, Moses made known at the bramble, when he calls the Lord, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob.
Acts 7:32
I the God of thy fathers, God of Abraham, and God of Isaac, and God of Jacob. And Moses being trembling, dared not observe attentively.

General references

Genesis 24:6
And Abraham will say to him, Observe to thyself that thou shalt not turn back ray son there.
Leviticus 23:42
Ye shall dwell in tents seven days; all the natives in Israel shall dwell in tents:
Numbers 15:41
I am Jehovah your God who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to be to you for God; I am Jehovah your God.
Psalm 119:54
Thy laws were musics to me in the house of my sojourning.
Jeremiah 32:38
And they were to me for a people, and I will be to them for God.
Mark 10:40
And to sit from my right hand, and from my left is not mine to give; but for whom it has been prepared.
Hebrews 13:14
For here have we no abiding city, but we seek that about to be.