Hebrews 10:34
Good News Translation
You shared the sufferings of prisoners, and when all your belongings were seized, you endured your loss gladly, because you knew that you still possessed something much better, which would last forever.

New Revised Standard Version
For you had compassion for those who were in prison, and you cheerfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you yourselves possessed something better and more lasting.

Contemporary English Version
You were kind to people in jail. And you gladly let your possessions be taken away, because you knew you had something better, something that would last forever.

New American Bible
You even joined in the sufferings of those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, knowing that you had a better and lasting possession.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For you both had compassion on them that were in bands and took with joy the being stripped of your own goods, knowing that you have a better and a lasting substance.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For you both had compassion on them that were in bands and took with joy the being stripped of your own goods, knowing that you have a better and a lasting substance.

in my.

Acts 21:33 Then the tribune, coming near, took him and commanded him to be bound with two chains: and demanded who he was and what he had done.

Acts 28:20 For this cause therefore I desired to see you and to speak to you. Because that for the hope of Israel, I am bound with this chain.

Ephesians 3:1 For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ, for you Gentiles:

Ephesians 4:1 I therefore, a prisoner in the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation in which you are called:

Ephesians 6:20 For which I am an ambassador in a chain: so that therein I may be bold to speak according as I ought.

Philippians 1:7 As it is meet for me to think this for you all, for that I have you in my heart; and that, in my bands and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of my joy.

2 Timothy 1:16 The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus: because he hath often refreshed me and hath not been ashamed of my chain:

2 Timothy 2:9 Wherein I labour even unto bands, as an evildoer. But the word of God is not bound.

and took.

Matthew 5:11,12 Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you, untruly, for my sake: . . .

Acts 5:41 And they indeed went from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were accounted worthy to suffer reproach for the name of Jesus.

James 1:2 My brethren, count it all joy, when you shall fall into divers temptations:

in yourselves that ye have.

Matthew 6:19,20 Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth: where the rust, and moth consume, and where thieves break through, and steal. . . .

Matthew 19:21 Jesus saith to him: If thou wilt be perfect, go sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

Luke 10:42 But one thing is necessary. Mary hath chosen the best part, which shall not be taken away from her.

Luke 12:33 Sell what you possess and give alms. Make to yourselves bags which grow not old, a treasure in heaven which faileth not: where no thief approacheth, nor moth corrupteth.

2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.

Colossians 1:5 For the hope that is laid up for you in heaven, which you have heard in the word of the truth of the gospel,

Colossians 3:2-4 Mind the things that are above, not the things that are upon the earth. . . .

1 Timothy 6:19 To lay up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on the true life.

2 Timothy 4:8 As to the rest, there is laid up for me a crown of justice which the Lord the just judge will render to me in that day: and not only to me, but to them also that love his coming. Make haste to come to me quickly.

1 Peter 1:4 Unto an inheritance, incorruptible, and undefiled and that cannot fade, reserved in heaven for you,

1 John 3:2 Dearly beloved, we are now the sons of God: and it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. We know that when he shall appear we shall be like to him: because we shall see him as he is.

Context
A Call to Persevere
33And on the one hand indeed, by reproaches and tribulations, were made a gazingstock; and on the other, became companions of them that were used in such sort. 34For you both had compassion on them that were in bands and took with joy the being stripped of your own goods, knowing that you have a better and a lasting substance. 35Do not therefore lose your confidence which hath a great reward.…
Cross References
Matthew 5:12
Be glad and rejoice for your reward is very great in heaven. For so they persecuted the prophets that were before you.

Luke 9:25
For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world and lose himself and cast away himself?

Hebrews 9:15
And therefore he is the mediator of the new testament: that by means of his death for the redemption of those transgressions which were under the former testament, they that are called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

Hebrews 11:16
But now they desire a better, that is to say, a heavenly country. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

Hebrews 13:3
Remember them that are in bands, as if you were bound with them: and them that labour, as being yourselves also in the body.

Hebrews 13:14
For, we have not here a lasting city: but we seek one that is to come.

1 Peter 1:4
Unto an inheritance, incorruptible, and undefiled and that cannot fade, reserved in heaven for you,

Hebrews 10:33
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