Hebrews 13:14

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Hebrews 13:14

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

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So a sabbath of rest is still awaiting God's people.

By faith he made his temporary home in the land that God had promised him, although a land inhabited by others, living merely in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were to share the promise with him.

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

I mean this, brothers. The time has been cut short. For the future, men who have wives should live as though they had none,

For this slight and momentary sorrow continues to accumulate for me a solid and eternal glory far beyond any comparison,

For I know that if this earthly tent in which I live is taken down, I have a building in heaven which comes from God, a house not built by human hands but eternal.

But we are citizens of the republic in heaven, from which we are eagerly waiting for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.

But the end of everything on earth is near. So be serious and sober minded, that you may give yourselves to prayer.

In accordance with His promise we are expecting new heavens and a new earth, in which uprightness will have its permanent home.