But as it is, they desire a better homeland, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; indeed, he has prepared a city for them.
Hebrews 11:40 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 since God had provided something better so that they would not, apart from us, be made perfect. More versionsKing 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 as it is, they desire a better homeland, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; indeed, he has prepared a city for them.
and having been made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,
(for the law made nothing perfect); there is, on the other hand, the introduction of a better hope through which we approach God.
But Jesus has now obtained a more excellent ministry, and to that degree he is the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on the basis of better promises.
Thus it was necessary for the sketches of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves need better sacrifices than these.
They were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number would be complete both of their fellow servants and of their brothers and sisters who were soon to be killed as they themselves had been killed.