Hebrews 13:14

King James Version

For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

Parallel Translations

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Christian Standard Bible®
For we do not have an enduring city here; instead, we seek the one 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:)

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Contextual Overview

¹ Let brotherly love continue. ² Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. ³ Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body. ⁴ Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. ⁵ Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. ⁶ So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. ⁷ Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation. ⁸ Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. ⁹ Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein. ¹⁰ We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.

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
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord , like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

Genesis 28:14
And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

Deuteronomy 3:27
Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

Isaiah 49:18
Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the Lord , thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.

Isaiah 60:4
Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy 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.