Hebrews 11:15

New International Reader's Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 11:31

Terah left Ur in Babylon. He took with him his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran. Terah also took his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram. All of them left together to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they made their home there.

Genesis 12:10

At that time there was not enough food in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while.

Genesis 24:4

Instead, promise me that you will go to my country and to my own relatives. Get a wife for my son Isaac from there.”

Genesis 31:18

He drove all his livestock ahead of him. He also took with him everything he had acquired in Paddan Aram. He left to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.

Hebrews 11:14

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