Hebrews 13:14

Amplified Bible

For here we have no lasting city, but we are seeking the city which is to come.

Parallel Translations

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

King James Version (1611)
For here haue we no continuing citie, but we seeke one to come.

King James Version
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one 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.

New Century Version
Here on earth we do not have a city that lasts forever, but we are looking for the city that we will have in the future.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For here we do not have a lasting city, but we are seeking the city which is to come.

Legacy Standard Bible
For here we do not have a lasting city, but we are seeking the one to come.

Berean Standard Bible
For here we do not have a permanent 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.

Complete Jewish Bible
For we have no permanent city here; on the contrary, we seek the one to come.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
Here on earth we don't have a city that lasts forever. But we are waiting for the city that we will have in the future.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For here haue we no continuing citie: but we seeke one to come.

George Lamsa Translation
For here we have not a permanent city, but we seek one to come.

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

Lexham English Bible
For here we do not have a permanent city, but we seek the city that is to come.

Literal Translation
For we do not have here a continuing city, but we seek the city coming.

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

Bible in Basic English
For here we have no fixed resting-place, but our search is for the one which is to come.

Hebrew Names Version
For we don't have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.

International Standard Version
For here we have no permanent city but are looking for the one that is coming.Micah 2:10; Philippians 3:20; Hebrews 11:10,16; 12:22;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
For we have no city which is permanent here; but one that is to come we are expecting.

Murdock Translation
(for we have here no abiding city; but we expect one that is future:)

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For here haue we no continuyng citie: but we seke one to come.

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

World English Bible
For we don't have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For we have here no continuing city; but we seek one to come.

Weymouth's New Testament
For we have no permanent city here, but we are longing for the city which is soon to be ours.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For we han not here a citee dwellynge, but we seken a citee to comynge.

Update Bible Version
For we do not have here an abiding city, but we seek after [the city] which is to come.

Webster's Bible Translation
For here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

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

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

New Living Translation
For this world is not our permanent home; we are looking forward to a home yet to come.

New Life Bible
For there is no city here on earth that will last forever. We are looking for the one that is coming.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For we have not here an abiding city, but, unto that which is to be, are we seeking our way.

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

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

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For here have we no continuynge citie: but we seke one to come.

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

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for here haue we no contynuynge cite, but we seke one to come.

Mace New Testament (1729)
for we have. no settled corporation here, but are in expectation of that which is approaching.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Do not think this shell and this dirt is our forever home. We look forward to a new place that is perfect and without fault. A home that is to come.

Contextual Overview

¹Let love of your fellow believers continue. ²Do not neglect to extend hospitality to strangers [especially among the family of believers—being friendly, cordial, and gracious, sharing the comforts of your home and doing your part generously], for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it. ³Remember those who are in prison, as if you were their fellow prisoner, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body [and subject to physical suffering]. ⁴Marriage is to be held in honor among all [that is, regarded as something of great value], and the marriage bed undefiled [by immorality or by any sexual sin]; for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. ⁵Let your character [your moral essence, your inner nature] be free from the love of money [shun greed—be financially ethical], being content with what you have; for He has said, "I WILL NEVER [under any circumstances] DESERT YOU [nor give you up nor leave you without support, nor will I in any degree leave you helpless], NOR WILL I FORSAKE or LET YOU DOWN or RELAX MY HOLD ON YOU [assuredly not]!" ⁶So we take comfort and are encouraged and confidently say, "THE LORD IS MY HELPER [in time of need], I WILL NOT BE AFRAID. WHAT WILL MAN DO TO ME?" ⁷Remember your leaders [for it was they] who brought you the word of God; and consider the result of their conduct [the outcome of their godly lives], and imitate their faith [their conviction that God exists and is the Creator and Ruler of all things, the Provider of eternal salvation through Christ, and imitate their reliance on God with absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness]. ⁸Jesus Christ is [eternally changeless, always] the same yesterday and today and forever. ⁹Do not be carried away by diverse and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be established and strengthened by grace and not by foods [rules of diet and ritualistic meals], which bring no benefit or spiritual growth to those who observe them. ¹⁰We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle (sacred tent) have no right to eat.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Hebrews 4:9, Hebrews 11:9, Hebrews 11:10, Hebrews 11:12-16, Hebrews 12:22, Micah 2:10, 1 Corinthians 7:29, 2 Corinthians 4:17, 2 Corinthians 4:18, 2 Corinthians 5:1-8, Philippians 3:20,*Gr: Colossians 3:1-3, 1 Peter 4:7, 2 Peter 3:13, 2 Peter 3:14

Reciprocal: Genesis 47:9 - The days John 14:2 - my 2 Corinthians 5:6 - whilst Hebrews 11:14 - they seek Hebrews 11:16 - for Revelation 21:2 - the holy

Cross-References

Genesis 13:10
So Lot looked and saw that the valley of the Jordan was well watered everywhere—this was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah; [it was all] like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar [at the south end of the Dead Sea].

Genesis 28:14
"Your descendants shall be as [countless as] the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and the east and the north and the south; and all the families (nations) of the earth shall be blessed through you and your descendants.

Deuteronomy 3:27
'Go up to the top of [Mount] Pisgah and raise your eyes toward the west and north and south and east, and see it with your eyes, for you shall not cross this Jordan.

Isaiah 49:18
"Lift up your eyes and look around [at the returning exiles]; All these gather together and they come to you [to rebuild you]. As I live," declares the LORD, "You [Zion] will indeed clothe yourself with all of them as jewels and tie them on as a bride.

Isaiah 60:4
"Lift up your eyes around you and see; They all gather together, they come to you. Your sons will come from far away, And your daughters will be looked after at their side.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For here have we no continuing city,.... Neither for religious worship, the city of Jerusalem being quickly to be destroyed, nor for civil life to dwell in; and so may have a peculiar regard to the Hebrews, whose temple and city would, in a short time, become desolate; though it was the general case of the saints, in those times, to be obliged to flee from one city to another, having no certain dwelling place: and it may respect the common instability of this world, and of the state of the saints in it: this world, and all things in it, are unstable and transitory, the riches, honours, pleasures, and profits of it, and the persons in it, and even the world itself; the fashion of it passes away: the saints have no settlement and abiding here; they are not of it, though in it; and though they are in it, it is but for a time; and, when they have done the will of God, they are taken out of it; another place is prepared for them: they are but sojourners, and strangers, and pilgrims; and this they are sensible of, and own, and acknowledge: and it is their mercy, that they are not to continue here; since, while in it, they are exposed to a great many sorrows and afflictions, both of soul and body; are often disturbed with Satan's temptations; and are liable to the snares, insults, and reproaches of the world; and, seeing they have no continuance here, they will be the sooner at home: and they have that to support them, under the instability of worldly things, which others have not; they are interested in an unchangeable God, and in his love; and in an unchangeable Saviour; and in an unchangeable covenant; and have a right to eternal glory and happiness, a city which has foundations, as follows:

but we seek one to come; heaven; which is compared to a city; is future, yet to come; though certain, being built and prepared by God; and is continuing, will abide, being well founded: hence the saints seek for it; :-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For here we have no continuing city ... - We do not regard this as our final home, or our fixed abode, and we should be willing to bear reproaches during the little time that we are to remain here; compare notes, Hebrews 11:10, Hebrews 11:13-14. If, therefore, in consequence of our professed attachment to the Saviour, we should be driven away from our habitations, and compelled to wander, we should be willing to submit to it, for our permanent home is not here, but in heaven. The object of the writer seems to be to comfort the Hebrew Christians on the supposition that they would be driven by persecution from the city of Jerusalem, and doomed to wander as exiles. He tells them that their Lord was led from that city to be put to death, and they should be willing to go forth also; that their permanent home was not Jerusalem, but heaven, and they should be willing in view of that blessed abode to be exiled from the city where they dwelt, and made wanderers in the earth.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 14. For here have we no continuing city — Here is an elegant and forcible allusion to the approaching destruction of Jerusalem. The Jerusalem that was below was about to be burnt with fire, and erased to the ground; the Jerusalem that was from above was that alone which could be considered to be μενουσαν, permanent. The words seem to say: "Arise, and depart; for this is not your rest: it is polluted:" About seven or eight years after this, Jerusalem was wholly destroyed.