Parallel Verses
Weymouth New Testament
for God had provided for them and us something better, so that apart from us they were not to attain to full blessedness.
New American Standard Bible
because God had
King James Version
God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Holman Bible
since God had provided something better for us, so that they would not be made perfect without us.
International Standard Version
since God had planned something better for us, so that they would not be perfected without us.
A Conservative Version
God having foreseen something superior concerning us, so that without us they would not be made fully perfect.
American Standard Version
God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
Amplified
because God had us in mind and had something better for us, so that they [these men and women of authentic faith] would not be made perfect [that is, completed in Him] apart from us.
An Understandable Version
because God had planned to give us something better [than they got], so that they would not be complete without us. [Note: The idea here is that these faithful people of Old Testament times did not receive the fullest of blessings until Christ came to make them available to both them and us together].
Anderson New Testament
because God had provided some better thing for us, that they, without us, should not be made perfect.
Bible in Basic English
Because God had kept some better thing for us, so that it was not possible for them to become complete without us.
Common New Testament
because God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
Daniel Mace New Testament
because God out of his distinguishing kindness to us, would not let them arrive before us to the enjoyment of perfect felicity.
Darby Translation
God having foreseen some better thing for us, that they should not be made perfect without us.
Godbey New Testament
God having reserved something better for us, that they might not be made perfect apart from us.
Goodspeed New Testament
for God had resolved upon something still better for us, that they might not reach the fulfilment of their hopes except with us.
John Wesley New Testament
did not receive the promise, God having provided some better thing for us, that they might not be perfected without us.
Julia Smith Translation
God having foreseen something better for us, that without us they should not be completed.
King James 2000
God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[because] God had provided something better for us, so that they would not be made perfect without us.
Modern King James verseion
for God had provided some better thing for us, that they should not be made perfect without us.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
God providing a better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Moffatt New Testament
God had something better in store for us; he would not have them perfected apart from us.
Montgomery New Testament
since it was for us that God had in store some better thing, so that apart from us they should not be perfected.
NET Bible
For God had provided something better for us, so that they would be made perfect together with us.
New Heart English Bible
God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
Noyes New Testament
God having provided for us some better thing, that they might not be made perfect without us.
Sawyer New Testament
God having provided something better for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
The Emphasized Bible
God, for us, something better providing, - that, not apart from us, should they be made, perfect.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
God having provided for us something better, that without us they should not attain to perfection.
Twentieth Century New Testament
since God had in view some better thing for us, that they, apart from us, should not attain perfection.
Webster
God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Williams New Testament
for God had provided something still better for us, that they, apart from us might not attain perfection.
World English Bible
God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
Worrell New Testament
God having provided something better concerning us, that, apart from us, they should not be made perfect.
Worsley New Testament
God having provided something better concerning us, that without us they might not be made perfect.
Youngs Literal Translation
God for us something better having provided, that apart from us they might not be made perfect.
Themes
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New » Creature dispensation » Superiority of the new dispensation over the old))
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Hebrews 11:40
Images Hebrews 11:40
Prayers for Hebrews 11:40
Verse Info
Context Readings
Examples Of Faith In Action
39 And although by their faith all these people won God's approval, none of them received the fulfilment of His great promise; 40 for God had provided for them and us something better, so that apart from us they were not to attain to full blessedness.
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Cross References
Revelation 6:11
And there was given to each of them a long white robe, and they were bidden to wait patiently for a short time longer, until the full number of their fellow bondservants should also complete--namely of their brethren who were soon to be killed just as they had been.
Romans 3:25-26
He it is whom God put forward as a Mercy-seat, rendered efficacious through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness-- because of the passing over, in God's forbearance, of the sins previously committed--
Hebrews 5:9
and so, having been made perfect, He became to all who obey Him the source and giver of eternal salvation.
Hebrews 7:19
for the Law brought no perfect blessing--but on the other hand we have the bringing in of a new and better hope by means of which we draw near to God.
Hebrews 7:22
so much the more also is the Covenant of which Jesus has become the guarantor, a better covenant.
Hebrews 8:6
But, as a matter of fact, the ministry which Christ has obtained is all the nobler a ministry, in that He is at the same time the negotiator of a sublimer covenant, based upon sublimer promises.
Hebrews 9:8-15
And the lesson which the Holy Spirit teaches is this--that the way into the true Holy place is not yet open so long as the outer tent still remains in existence.
Hebrews 9:23
It was needful therefore that the copies of the things in Heaven should be cleansed in this way, but that the heavenly things themselves should be cleansed with more costly sacrifices.
Hebrews 10:11-14
And while every priest stands ministering, day after day, and constantly offering the same sacrifices--though such can never rid us of our sins--
Hebrews 12:23-24
to the great festal gathering and Church of the first-born, whose names are recorded in Heaven, and to a Judge who is God of all, and to the spirits of righteous men made perfect,