For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD has founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.
In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
For we know that if our earthly house in this dwelling place is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
For our conduct is in heaven; from which also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ:
But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
But you have come to mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
Therefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us hold fast to grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
For here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
For every house is built by someone; but he that built all things is God.
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.