Hebrews 13:14 For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.

English Standard Version
For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.

New American Standard Bible
For here we do not have a lasting city, but we are seeking the city which is to come.

King James Bible
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For we do not have an enduring city here; instead, we seek the one to come.

International Standard Version
For here we have no permanent city but are looking for the one that is coming.

American Standard Version
For we have not here an abiding city, but we seek after the city which is to come.

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

Darby Bible Translation
for we have not here an abiding city, but we seek the coming one.

Young's Literal Translation
for we have not here an abiding city, but the coming one we seek;

Cross References

Ephesians 2:19
Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

Hebrews 2:5
For to the angels has he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.

Hebrews 9:11
But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

Hebrews 10:34
For you had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that you have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.

Hebrews 11:10
For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Hebrews 11:16
But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: why God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he has 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 an innumerable company of angels,

Hebrews 12:27
And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

Revelation 3:12
Him that overcomes will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God: and I will write on him my new name.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

13:7-15 The instructions and examples of ministers, who honourably and comfortably closed their testimony, should be particularly remembered by survivors. And though their ministers were some dead, others dying, yet the great Head and High Priest of the church, the Bishop of their souls, ever lives, and is ever the same. Christ is the same in the Old Testament day. as in the gospel day, and will be so to his people for ever, equally merciful, powerful, and all-sufficient. Still he fills the hungry, encourages the trembling, and welcomes repenting sinners: still he rejects the proud and self-righteous, abhors mere profession, and teaches all whom he saves, to love righteousness, and to hate iniquity. Believers should seek to have their hearts established in simple dependence on free grace, by the Holy Spirit, which would comfort their hearts, and render them proof against delusion. Christ is both our Altar and our Sacrifice; he sanctifies the gift. The Lord's supper is the feast of the gospel passover. Having showed that keeping to the Levitical law would, according to its own rules, keep men from the Christian altar, the apostle adds, Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp; go forth from the ceremonial law, from sin, from the world, and from ourselves. Living by faith in Christ, set apart to God through his blood, let us willingly separate from this evil world. Sin, sinners, nor death, will not suffer us to continue long here; therefore let us go forth now by faith and seek in Christ the rest and peace which this world cannot afford us. Let us bring our sacrifices to this altar, and to this our High Priest, and offer them up by him. The sacrifice of praise to God, we should offer always. In this are worship and prayer, as well as thanksgiving.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

14. here—on earth. Those Hebrews who clung to the earthly sanctuary are representatives of all who cling to this earth. The earthly Jerusalem proved to be no "abiding city," having been destroyed shortly after this Epistle was written, and with it fell the Jewish civil and religious polity; a type of the whole of our present earthly order of things soon to perish.

one to come—(Heb 2:5; 11:10, 14, 16; 12:22; Php 3:20).