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Hebrews 13:14

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

for here we have no permanent city, but are looking for the City that is to be.

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What I mean, Brothers, is this-The time is short. Meanwhile, let those who have wives live as if they had none,

The light burden of our momentary trouble is preparing for us, in measure transcending thought, a weight of imperishable glory;

It follows, then, that you are no longer strangers and aliens, but are fellow-citizens with Christ's People and members of God's Household.

But the State of which we are citizens is in Heaven; and it is from Heaven that we are eagerly looking for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

For you not only sympathized with those who were in prison, but you even took the confiscation of your possessions joyfully, knowing, as you did, that you had in yourselves a greater possession and a lasting one.

No, but it is to Mount Zion that you have drawn near, the City of the Living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to countless hosts of angels,

And those words 'still once more' indicate the passing away of all that is shaken--that is, of all created things--in order that only what is unshaken may remain.

God has not given to angels the control of that Future World of which we are speaking!

There is, then, a Sabbath-Rest still awaiting God's People.

But, when Christ came, he appeared as High Priest of that Better System which was established; and he entered through that nobler and more perfect 'Tabernacle,' not made by human hands--that is to say, not a part of this present creation.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore exercise self-restraint and be calm, that you may be able to pray.

He who conquers--I will make him a pillar in the Temple of my God; and never more shall he leave it; and I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the City of my God, the New Jerusalem, which is coming down out of Heaven from my God, and I will write on him my new name.




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