God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
Parallel translations
- KJV God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
- BSB God had planned something better for us, so that together with us they would be made perfect.
- NKJV God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.
- NASB because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from us they would not be made perfect.
- NLT For God had something better in mind for us, so that they would not reach perfection without us.
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Cross-references & the web
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- Rev 6:11A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.
- Heb 10:11–14Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,
- Heb 8:6But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.
- Heb 7:19(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
- Heb 5:9Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,
- Heb 9:23It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
- Heb 9:8–15The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing;
- Rom 3:25–26whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;
- Heb 12:23–24to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
- Heb 7:22By so much, Jesus has become the collateral of a better covenant.
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