Bible Cross References
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
Hebrews 4:9
As it is, however, there still remains for God's people a rest like God's resting on the seventh day.
Hebrews 11:9
By faith he lived as a foreigner in the country that God had promised him. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who received the same promise from God.
Hebrews 11:10
For Abraham was waiting for the city which God has designed and built, the city with permanent foundations.
Hebrews 11:12-16
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Though Abraham was practically dead, from this one man came as many descendants as there are stars in the sky, as many as the numberless grains of sand on the seashore.
13
It was in faith that all these persons died. They did not receive the things God had promised, but from a long way off they saw them and welcomed them, and admitted openly that they were foreigners and refugees on earth.
14
Those who say such things make it clear that they are looking for a country of their own.
15
They did not keep thinking about the country they had left; if they had, they would have had the chance to return.
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 12:22
Instead, you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, with its thousands of angels.
Micah 2:10
Get up and go; there is no safety here any more. Your sins have doomed this place to destruction.
1 Corinthians 7:29
What I mean, my friends, is this: there is not much time left, and from now on married people should live as though they were not married;
2 Corinthians 4:17
And this small and temporary trouble we suffer will bring us a tremendous and eternal glory, much greater than the trouble.
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 5:1-8
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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.
2
And now we sigh, so great is our desire that our home which comes from heaven should be put on over us;
3
by being clothed with it we shall not be without a body.
4
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.
5
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.
6
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.
7
For our life is a matter of faith, not of sight.
8
We are full of courage and would much prefer to leave our home in the body and be at home with the Lord.
Philippians 3:20
We, however, are citizens of heaven, and we eagerly wait for our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, to come from heaven.
Colossians 3:1-3
1
You have been raised to life with Christ, so set your hearts on the things that are in heaven, where Christ sits on his throne at the right side of God.
2
Keep your minds fixed on things there, not on things here on earth.
3
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
1 Peter 4:7
The end of all things is near. You must be self-controlled and alert, to be able to pray.
2 Peter 3:13
But we wait for what God has promised: new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness will be at home.
2 Peter 3:14
And so, my friends, as you wait for that Day, do your best to be pure and faultless in God's sight and to be at peace with him.