Hebrews 13:14

We have no permanent city here but look forward to the city that is to come. The believer's hope is set on the eternal, heavenly homeland, not earthly stability.

Cross-references · 12

• Phil 3:20For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;
• Col 3:1–3If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
• Heb 11:12–16Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.
• Heb 12:22But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
• 2 Pet 3:13–14But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.
• Eph 2:19So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,
• 2 Cor 4:17For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;
• Heb 11:9–10By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.
• Mic 2:10Arise, and depart! For this is not your resting place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction.
• Heb 4:9There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
• 1 Pet 4:7But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
• 1 Cor 7:29But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

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