Hebrews 11:40 - Revised Standard Version

⁴⁰ since God had foreseen something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁰ God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁰ 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)

⁴⁰ God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

Common English Bible

⁴⁰ God provided something better for us so they wouldn’t be made perfect without us.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁰ 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

⁴⁰ God providing some better thing for us, that they should not be perfected without us.

Hebrews 11:40 Cross References

Hebrews 11:16

But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.

Hebrews 5:9

and being made perfect he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,

Hebrews 7:19

(for the law made nothing perfect); on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.

Hebrews 7:22

This makes Jesus the surety of a better covenant.

Hebrews 8:6

But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry which is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.

Hebrews 9:23

Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

Revelation 6:11

Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brethren should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.