Get up and leave, for this is not your place of rest because defilement brings destruction – a grievous destruction!
Hebrews 13:14 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised For we do not have an enduring city here; instead, we seek the one to come. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For here we have no permanent city, but we are looking for the one which is to come. American Standard Version (1901) For we have not here an abiding city, but we seek after the city which is to come. Common English Bible We don’t have a permanent city here, but rather we are looking for the city that is still to come. Catholic Public Domain Version For in this place, we have no everlasting city; instead, we seek one in the future. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For we have not here a lasting city, but we seek one that is to come. |
Get up and leave, for this is not your place of rest because defilement brings destruction – a grievous destruction!
This is what I mean, brothers and sisters: The time is limited, so from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none,
For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory.
So, then, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with the saints, and members of God’s household,
Our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly wait for a Saviour from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.
For you sympathised with the prisoners and accepted with joy the confiscation of your possessions, because you know that you yourselves have a better and enduring possession. ,
Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God (the heavenly Jerusalem), to myriads of angels, a festive gathering,
This expression, ‘Yet once more,’ indicates the removal of what can be shaken #– #that is, created things #– #so that what is not shaken might remain.
For he has not subjected to angels the world to come that we are talking about.
But Christ has appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come. In the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands (that is, not of this creation ),
The end of all things is near; therefore, be alert and sober-minded for prayer.
‘The one who conquers I will make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will never go out again. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God #– #the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God #– #and my new name.