Hebrews 11:14

Contemporary English Version

When people talk this way, it is clear that they are looking for a place to call their own.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Now those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.

King James Version (1611)
For they that say such things, declare plainly that they seeke a countrey.

King James Version
For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.

English Standard Version
For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.

New American Standard Bible
For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.

New Century Version
When people say such things, they show they are looking for a country that will be their own.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.

Legacy Standard Bible
For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.

Berean Standard Bible
Now those who say such things show that they are seeking a country of their own.

Complete Jewish Bible
For people who speak this way make it clear that they are looking for a fatherland.

Darby Translation
For they who say such things shew clearly that they seek [their] country.

Easy-to-Read Version
When people accept something like that, they show they are waiting for a country that will be their own.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For they yt say such things, declare plainely, that they seeke a countrey.

George Lamsa Translation
For they who speak so, declare plainly that they seek a country for themselves.

Good News Translation
Those who say such things make it clear that they are looking for a country of their own.

Lexham English Bible
For those who say such things make clear that they are seeking a homeland.

Literal Translation
For those saying such things make clear that they seek a fatherland.

Amplified Bible
Now those who say such things make it clear that they are looking for a country of their own.

American Standard Version
For they that say such things make it manifest that they are seeking after a country of their own.

Bible in Basic English
For those who say such things make it clear that they are searching for a country for themselves.

Hebrew Names Version
For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking after a country of their own.

International Standard Version
For people who say such things make it clear that they are looking for a country of their own.Hebrews 13:14;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
For they who these things say, make manifest that their city they are seeking.

Murdock Translation
Now they who say thus, show that they seek a city.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For they that saye suche thynges, declare that they seke a countrey.

English Revised Version
For they that say such things make it manifest that they are seeking after a country of their own.

World English Bible
For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking after a country of their own.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For they who speak thus, shew plainly, that they seek their own country.

Weymouth's New Testament
for men who acknowledge this make it manifest that they are seeking elsewhere a country of their own.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei that sayn these thingis, signifien that thei sechen a cuntre.

Update Bible Version
For those that say such things make it manifest that they are seeking after a country of their own.

Webster's Bible Translation
For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.

New English Translation
For those who speak in such a way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.

New King James Version
For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland.

New Living Translation
Obviously people who say such things are looking forward to a country they can call their own.

New Life Bible
People who say these things show they are looking for a country of their own.

New Revised Standard
for people who speak in this way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, they who such things as these are saying, make it clear that, of a paternal home they are in quest;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For they that say these things do signify that they seek a country.

Revised Standard Version
For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
They that saye soche thinges declare that they seke a coutre.

Young's Literal Translation
for those saying such things make manifest that they seek a country;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For they that saye soch thinges, declare, that they seke a naturall countre.

Mace New Testament (1729)
for they. that make such a declaration, show plainly that they seek some other country.

Simplified Cowboy Version
It's obvious these day hands were looking forward to a ranch they could call their own.

Contextual Overview

⁴ Because Abel had faith, he offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. God was pleased with him and his gift, and even though Abel is now dead, his faith still speaks for him. ⁵ Enoch had faith and did not die. He pleased God, and God took him up to heaven. That's why his body was never found. ⁶ But without faith no one can please God. We must believe that God is real and that he rewards everyone who searches for him. ⁷ Because Noah had faith, he was warned about something that had not yet happened. He obeyed and built a boat that saved him and his family. In this way the people of the world were judged, and Noah was given the blessings that come to everyone who pleases God. ⁸ Abraham had faith and obeyed God. He was told to go to the land that God had said would be his, and he left for a country he had never seen. ⁹ Because Abraham had faith, he lived as a stranger in the promised land. He lived there in a tent, and so did Isaac and Jacob, who were later given the same promise. ¹⁰ Abraham did this, because he was waiting for the eternal city that God had planned and built. ¹¹ Even when Sarah was too old to have children, she had faith that God would do what he had promised, and she had a son. ¹² Her husband Abraham was almost dead, but he became the ancestor of many people. In fact, there are as many of them as there are stars in the sky or grains of sand along the beach. ¹³ Every one of those people died. But they still had faith, even though they had not received what they had been promised. They were glad just to see these things from far away, and they agreed that they were only strangers and foreigners on this earth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they seek: Hebrews 11:16, Hebrews 13:14, Romans 8:23-25, 2 Corinthians 4:18, 2 Corinthians 5:1-7, Philippians 1:23

Reciprocal: Genesis 12:9 - going on still Exodus 2:22 - for he said John 14:2 - my Romans 3:25 - remission Revelation 5:9 - and hast

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For they that say such things,.... That they are strangers and pilgrims on earth:

declare plainly that they seek a country; heaven, so called, for the largeness of it; it is a good land, a land of uprightness; a pleasant land, a land of rest, though a land afar off; here the Father of Christ, and Christ himself, and all his people dwell: the Syriac version renders it, "their own city"; the place of their nativity, of which they were citizens: the act of "seeking" it supposes some things, with respect to the place where they were, as that they were in a strange land, had no settlement there, nor satisfaction in it, and that they sat loose to the world, and the things of it; and some things respecting the country sought after, as that they were not in it; that it was at a distance from them; that they had some knowledge of it, and of the way to it; that their desires were after it, and that they had a strong affection and value for it: the right way to this country is not mere civility and morality, nor legal righteousness, nor birth privileges, nor submission to outward ordinances, nor a mere profession of religion, but the Lord Jesus Christ; he is the true way to eternal life; it is his righteousness which gives a title to it, and on account of which believers expect it, though not without holiness, nor without trouble. The right manner of seeking it is, in the first place, above all things else, with the whole heart, by faith, and by patient continuance in well doing. Many are the reasons which may induce believers to seek it; it is their own, and their Father's country; it is a better one than that in which they are; and because of the company they shall there enjoy, and the work they shall be employed in; and because of the happiness they will be possessed of; and because their inheritance, riches, and treasures, lie here.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For they that say such things ... - That speak of themselves as having come into a land of strangers; and that negotiate for a small piece of land, not to cultivate, but to bury their dead. So we should think of any strange people coming among us now - who lived in tents; who frequently changed their residence; who became the purchasers of no land except to bury their dead, and who never spake of becoming permanent residents. We should think that they were in search of some place as their home, and that they had not yet found it. Such people were the Hebrew patriarchs. They lived and acted just as if they had not yet found a permanent habitation, but were traveling in search of one.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 14. Declare plainly that they seek a country. — A man's country is that in which he has constitutional rights and privileges; no stranger or sojourner has any such rights in the country where he sojourns. These, by declaring that they felt themselves strangers and sojourners, professed their faith in a heavenly country and state, and looked beyond the grave for a place of happiness. No intelligent Jew could suppose that Canaan was all the rest which God had promised to his people.