But now they long for a better place, that is, a heavenly. Therefore Elohim is not ashamed to be called their Elohim, for He has prepared a city for them.
Hebrews 11:40 - The Scriptures 2009 Elohim having provided what is better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Because God had us in mind and had something better and greater in view for us, so that they [these heroes and heroines of faith] should not come to perfection apart from us [before we could join them]. American Standard Version (1901) God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect. Common English Bible God provided something better for us so they wouldn’t be made perfect without us. Catholic Public Domain Version God's Providence holds something better for us, so that not without us would they be perfected. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version God providing some better thing for us, that they should not be perfected without us. |
But now they long for a better place, that is, a heavenly. Therefore Elohim is not ashamed to be called their Elohim, for He has prepared a city for them.
And having been perfected, He became the Causer of everlasting deliverance to all those obeying Him,
for the Torah perfected naught, but the bringing in of a better expectation, through which we draw near to Elohim.
By as much as this יהושע has become a guarantor of a better covenant.
But now He has obtained a more excellent service, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was constituted on better promises.
It was necessary, then, that the copies of the heavenly ones should be cleansed with these, but the heavenly ones themselves with better slaughter offerings than these.
And there was given to each one a white robe, and they were told that they should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servants and their brothers, who would be killed as they were, was completed.