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Hebrews 13:14 KJV
Hebrews · chapter 13 · verse 14
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.Hebrews 13:14 · King James Version
Hebrews 13:14 in context
12Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
13Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
14For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
15By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
16But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
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Key words (Strong's)
- continuingmenōto remain, abide, in reference to place, to sojourn, tarry, not to depart, to continue to…G3306 →
- citypolisa city, one s native city, the city in which one lives, the heavenly Jerusalem, the abode…G4172 →
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The design of Christ in giving himself for us is that he may purchase to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. Now the apostle calls the believing Hebrews to the performance of many excellent duties, in which it becomes Christians to excel. I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-17