Hebrews 13:14 “For here we do not have a permanent city, but we are looking for the c…”

Hebrews 13:14

For here we do not have a permanent city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

For we don’t have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.

American Standard Version

For we have not here an abiding city, but we seek after the city which is to come.

Geneva Bible 1599

For here haue we no continuing citie: but we seeke one to come.

Darby Translation

for we have not here an abiding city, but we seek the coming one.

Young's Literal Translation

for we have not here an abiding city, but the coming one we seek;

Bible in Basic English

For here we have no fixed resting-place, but our search is for the one which is to come.

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Cross references

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

Philippians 3:20 Colossians 3:1–3 Hebrews 11:12–16 Hebrews 12:22 Micah 2:10 Hebrews 4:9

Philippians 3:20 · BSB

But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Colossians 3:1–3 · BSB

Therefore, since you have been raised with Christ, strive for the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.

Hebrews 11:12–16 · BSB

And so from one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.

Hebrews 12:22 · BSB

Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angels

Micah 2:10 · BSB

Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction— a grievous destruction!

Hebrews 4:9 · BSB

There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

Also

Ephesians 2:19

Ephesians 2:19 · BSB

Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

13Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace He bore.

15Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.

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