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
It follows that there still remains a sabbath rest for the people of God.
Hebrews 11:9
Through faith he came and made his home for a time in a land which had been promised to him, as if in a foreign country, living in tents together with Isaac and Jacob, sharers with him in the same promise;
Hebrews 12:22
On the contrary you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the ever-living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to countless hosts of angels,
1 Corinthians 7:29
Yet of this I warn you, brethren: the time has been shortened--so that henceforth those who have wives should be as though they had none,
2 Corinthians 4:17
For this our light and transitory burden of suffering is achieving for us a preponderating, yes, a vastly preponderating, and eternal weight of glory;
2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if this poor tent, our earthly house, is taken down, we have in Heaven a building which God has provided, a house not built by human hands, but eternal.
Philippians 3:20
We, however, are free citizens of Heaven, and we are waiting with longing expectation for the coming from Heaven of a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is now close at hand: therefore be sober-minded and temperate, so that you may give yourselves to prayer.
2 Peter 3:13
But in accordance with His promise we are expecting new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness will dwell.