For he looked forward to the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
What will one answer the messengers of the nation? “The Lord has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge.”
In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?
For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
But our commonwealth is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. 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 innumerable angels in festal gathering,
Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe;
For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city which is to come.
(For every house is built by some one, but the builder of all things is God.)
And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband;