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 rest for the people of God.
Hebrews 11:9
By faith he sojourned in the promised land, as in a strange country, dwelling in booths with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise;
Hebrews 12:22
but ye are come unto Mount Sion and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
Micah 2:10
Arise and depart, for this is not your rest because it is polluted; it has become corrupted and with a great corruption.
1 Corinthians 7:29
But this I say, brothers, the time is short; for the rest, let those that have wives be as though they had none;
2 Corinthians 4:17
For our tribulation, which is momentary and light, prepares an exceeding and eternal weight of glory unto us;
2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if the earthly house of this our habitation were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Philippians 3:20
For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is at hand; be ye, therefore, temperate and watch unto prayer.
2 Peter 3:13
Nevertheless we, according to his promises, wait for new heavens and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.