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.
Hebrews 11:40 - Revised Standard Version since God had foreseen something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Because God had us in mind and had something better and greater in view for us, so that they [these heroes and heroines of faith] should not come to perfection apart from us [before we could join them]. American Standard Version (1901) God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect. Common English Bible God provided something better for us so they wouldn’t be made perfect without us. Catholic Public Domain Version God's Providence holds something better for us, so that not without us would they be perfected. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version God providing some better thing for us, that they should not be perfected without us. |
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.
and being made perfect he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,
(for the law made nothing perfect); on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.
But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry which is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.
Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brethren should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.