But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Hebrews 11:40 - Revised Version 1885 God having provided some better thing concerning 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 now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
and having been made perfect, he became unto all them that obey him the author of eternal salvation;
(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw nigh unto God.
But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises.
It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
And there was given them to each one a white robe; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little time, until their fellow-servants also and their brethren, which should be killed even as they were, should be fulfilled.