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

Those who speak thus show plainly that they are seeking their fatherland.

No, but it is to Mount Zion that you have drawn near, the City of the Living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to countless hosts of angels,

God is

For he who purifies, and those whom he purifies, all spring from One; and therefore he is not ashamed to call them 'Brothers.'

To be

As to the resurrection of the dead, have you not read these words of God--

As to the dead, and the fact that they rise, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the Bush, how God spoke to him thus--'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

As to the fact that the dead rise, even Moses indicated that, in the passage about the Bush, when he calls the Lord--'The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'

'I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.' Moses trembled, and did not dare to look.

General references

But as to a seat at my right or at my left--that is not mine to give, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared."

for here we have no permanent city, but are looking for the City that is to be.