Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

Bible References

General references

Hebrews 4:9
There remains, therefore, a sabbath state for the people of God.
Hebrews 11:9
By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
Hebrews 12:22
But you have come to Mount Zion, and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels;
1 Corinthians 7:29
Now, this I say, brethren, the time is fraught with trials. It remains that those who have wives be as though they had them not;
2 Corinthians 4:17
For our present light affliction works out for us an eternal fullness of glory, excelling all excellence, ls while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen: for the things seen are temporal; but the things not seen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if our earthly house, which is but a tent, should be destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Philippians 3:20
But our citizenship is in heaven, whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is at hand; be sober-minded, therefore, and watchful, that you may pray.
2 Peter 3:13
But we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.