Hebrews 11:14

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

Cross References

2 Corinthians 4:18

So we don’t focus on what we can see. Instead, we focus on what we can’t see. That’s because the things that can be seen last only a short time, but the things that can’t be seen will last forever.

Hebrews 13:14

We don’t have a lasting city here. Instead, we’re looking for the city that’s going to come.

Hebrews 11:16

Instead, they were longing for a better country, a heavenly one. So God isn’t ashamed to be called their God, because he has prepared a city for them.

Philippians 1:23

I can’t decide between the two. I long to depart and be with Christ. That would be better by far.

Hebrews 11:13

All of 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 admitted that they were outsiders and strangers on earth.

Hebrews 11:15

If they’d been thinking of the country they left, they would have had a chance to return there.