Bible Cross References
they seek
Hebrews 11:16
Instead, it was a better country they longed for, the heavenly country. And so God is not ashamed for them to call him their God, because he has prepared a city for them.
Hebrews 13:14
For there is no permanent city for us here on earth; we are looking for the city which is to come.
Romans 8:23-25
23
But it is not just creation alone which groans; we who have the Spirit as the first of God's gifts also groan within ourselves as we wait for God to make us his children and set our whole being free.
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For it was by hope that we were saved; but if we see what we hope for, then it is not really hope. For who of us hopes for something we see?
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But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
2 Corinthians 4:18
For we fix our attention, not on things that are seen, but on things that are unseen. What can be seen lasts only for a time, but what cannot be seen lasts forever.
2 Corinthians 5:1-7
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For we know that when this tent we live in---our body here on earth---is torn down, God will have a house in heaven for us to live in, a home he himself has made, which will last forever.
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And now we sigh, so great is our desire that our home which comes from heaven should be put on over us;
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by being clothed with it we shall not be without a body.
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While we live in this earthly tent, we groan with a feeling of oppression; it is not that we want to get rid of our earthly body, but that we want to have the heavenly one put on over us, so that what is mortal will be transformed by life.
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God is the one who has prepared us for this change, and he gave us his Spirit as the guarantee of all that he has in store for us.
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So we are always full of courage. We know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord's home.
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For our life is a matter of faith, not of sight.
Philippians 1:23
I am pulled in two directions. I want very much to leave this life and be with Christ, which is a far better thing;