Hebrews 13:14
Good News Translation
For there is no permanent city for us here on earth; we are looking for the city which is to come.

New Revised Standard Version
For here we have no lasting city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.

Contemporary English Version
On this earth we don't have a city that lasts forever, but we are waiting for such a city.

New American Bible
For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the one that is to come.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For, we have not here a lasting city: but we seek one that is to come.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Hebrews 4:9 There remaineth therefore a day of rest for the people of God.

Hebrews 11:9,10,12-16 By faith he abode in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in cottages, with Isaac and Jacob, the co-heirs of the same promise. . . .

Hebrews 12:22 But you are come to mount Sion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of angels,

Micah 2:10 You have cast out the women of my people from their houses, in which they took delight: you have taken my praise forever from their children.

1 Corinthians 7:29 This therefore I say, brethren: The time is short. It remaineth, that they also who have wives be as if they had none:

2 Corinthians 4:17,18 For that which is at present momentary and light of our tribulation worketh for us above measure, exceedingly an eternal weight of glory. . . .

2 Corinthians 5:1-8 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. . . .

Philippians 3:20 But our conversation is in heaven: from whence also we look for the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ,

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Colossians 3:1-3 Therefore if you be risen with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God. . . .

1 Peter 4:7 But the end of all is at hand. Be prudent therefore and watch in prayers.

2 Peter 3:13,14 But we look for new heavens and a new earth according to his promises, in which justice dwelleth. . . .

Context
Christ's Unchanging Nature
13Let us go forth therefore to him without the camp, bearing his reproach. 14For, we have not here a lasting city: but we seek one that is to come. 15By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise always to God, that is to say, the fruit of lips confessing to his name.…
Cross References
Ephesians 2:19
Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners: but you are fellow citizens with the saints and the domestics of God,

Hebrews 2:5
For God hath not subjected unto angels the world to come, whereof we speak.

Hebrews 9:11
But Christ, being come an high Priest of the good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hand, that is, not of this creation:

Hebrews 10:34
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.

Hebrews 11:10
For he looked for a city that hath foundations: whose builder and maker is God.

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 12:22
But you are come to mount Sion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of angels,

Hebrews 12:27
And in that he saith: Yet once more, he signifieth the translation of the moveable things as made, that those things may remain which are immoveable.

Revelation 3:12
He that shall overcome, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God: and he shall go out no more. And I will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and my new name.

Hebrews 13:13
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