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 people who make such a profession as this show that they are in search of a country of their own.

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

God is

For both He who is purifying them and those who are being purified all spring from one Father; so He is not ashamed to call them brothers,

To be

But did you never read, on the resurrection of the dead, what God said to you,

But as to the rising of the dead, did 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, even Moses at the bush has demonstrated, 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 so terrified that he did not dare to look at the bush.

General references

but seats at my right and at my left are not mine to give, but they will be given to those for whom they have been prepared."

for we have no permanent city here, but we are searching for that city which is to be ours.