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 those who say such things make it plain that they are seeking a Fatherland.

On the contrary you are come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to innumerable hosts of angels,

God is

For both he who sanctifies and those whom he is sanctifying are all from One; for which reason he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying.

To be

"But concerning the resurrection of the dead, did you never read what was spoken to you by God,

But in regard to the rising again of the dead, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

"But that the dead are raised, even Moses clearly implied in the passage about the Bush, when he calls the Lord. "The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob.

"I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. "And Moses trembled and dared not gaze.

General references

but a seat upon my right hand or my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been reserved."

For we have not here an abiding city, but we are earnestly seeking the city that is to be.