Hebrews 11:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ for people who speak in this way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ Now those people who talk as they did show plainly that they are in search of a fatherland (their own country).

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ For they that say such things make it manifest that they are seeking after a country of their own.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ People who say this kind of thing make it clear that they are looking for a homeland.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ For those who speak in this way are themselves indicating that they seek a homeland.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ For they that say these things, do signify that they seek a country.

Hebrews 11:14 Cross References

Exodus 2:22

She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have been an alien residing in a foreign land.”

2 Corinthians 4:18

because we look not at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen, for what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.

Philippians 1:23

I am hard pressed between the two: my desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better,

Hebrews 11:13

All of these died in faith without having received the promises, but from a distance they saw and greeted them. They confessed that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth,

Hebrews 11:15

If they had been thinking of the land that they had left behind, they would have had opportunity to return.

Hebrews 11:16

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 13:14

For here we have no lasting city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.