Hebrews 11:14

Easy To Read Version

When people accept something like that, then those people show that they are waiting for a country that will be their own country.

Cross References

Exodus 2:22

Zipporah became pregnant and had a son. Moses named him Gershom. [14] Moses gave his son this name because Moses was a stranger in a land that was not his own.

Philippians 1:23

It is hard to choose between living or dying. I want to leave this life and be with Christ. That is much better.

Hebrews 11:13

All those great men continued living with faith until they died. Those men did not get the things that God promised his people. The men only saw those things coming far in the future and were glad. Those men accepted the fact that they were like visitors and strangers on earth.

Hebrews 11:15

If those men were thinking about that country they had left, then they could have gone back.

Hebrews 11:16

But those men were waiting for a better country—a heavenly country. So God is not ashamed to be called their God. And God has prepared a city for those men.

Hebrews 13:14

Here on earth we don’t have a city that continues forever. But we are waiting for the city that we will have in the future.