Hebrews 11:14

New International Reader's Version

People who say things like that show that they are looking for a country of their own.

Cross References

Exodus 2:22

Zipporah had a son by him. Moses named him Gershom. That’s because Moses said, “I’m an outsider in a strange land.”

2 Corinthians 4:18

So we don’t spend all our time looking at what we can see. Instead, we look at what we can’t see. That’s because what can be seen lasts only a short time. But what can’t be seen will last forever.

Philippians 1:23

I can’t decide between the two. I long to leave this world and be with Christ. That is better by far.

Hebrews 11:13

All these people were still living by faith when they died. They didn’t receive the things God had promised. They only saw them and welcomed them from a long way off. They openly said that they were outsiders and strangers on earth.

Hebrews 11:15

What if they had been thinking of the country they had left? Then they could have returned to it.

Hebrews 11:16

Instead, they longed for a better country. They wanted a heavenly one. So God is pleased when they call him their God. In fact, he has prepared a city for them.

Hebrews 13:14

Here we do not have a city that lasts. But we are looking for the city that is going to come.