Hebrews 11:40 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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 now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

Hebrews 5:9

and having been made perfect, he became unto all them that obey him the author of eternal salvation;

Hebrews 7:19

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw nigh unto God.

Hebrews 7:22

by so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant.

Hebrews 8:6

But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises.

Hebrews 9:23

It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

Revelation 6:11

And there was given them to each one a white robe; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little time, until their fellow-servants also and their brethren, which should be killed even as they were, should be fulfilled.