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Hebrews 13:14

New International Reader's Version

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

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Get up! Leave this land! It is no longer your resting place. You have made it ‘unclean.’ You have completely destroyed it.

Brothers and sisters, what I mean is that the time is short. From now on, those who have a husband or wife should live as if they did not.

Our troubles are small. They last only for a short time. But they are earning for us a glory that will last forever. It is greater than all our troubles.

So you are no longer outsiders and strangers. You are citizens together with God’s people. You are also members of God’s family.

But we are citizens of heaven. And we can hardly wait for a Savior from there. He is the Lord Jesus Christ.

You suffered along with people in prison. When your property was taken from you, you accepted it with joy. You knew that God had given you better and more lasting things.

But you have come to Mount Zion. You have come to the city of the living God. This is the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to a joyful gathering of angels. There are thousands and thousands of them.

The words “once more” point out that what can be shaken can be taken away. I’m talking about created things. Then what can’t be shaken will remain.

God has not put angels in charge of the world that is going to come. We are talking about that world.

So there is still a Sabbath rest for God’s people.

But Christ came to be the high priest of the good things already here now. When he came, he went through the greater and more perfect holy tent. This tent was not made with human hands. In other words, it is not a part of this creation.

The end of all things is near. So be watchful and control yourselves. Then you may pray.

Here is what I will do for anyone who has victory over sin. I will make that person a pillar in the temple of my God. They will never leave it again. I will write the name of my God on them. I will write the name of the city of my God on them. This is the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God. I will also write my new name on them.




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