Hebrews 11:40 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴⁰God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

Hebrews 11:40 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Revelation 6:11
And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
Hebrews 10:11-14
And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: …
Hebrews 8:6
But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
Hebrews 7:19
For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
Hebrews 5:9
And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 32-40)

The apostle having given us a classis of many eminent believers, whose names are mentioned and the particular trials and actings of their faith recorded, now concludes his narrative with a more summary account of another set of believers, where the particular acts are not ascribed to particular persons by name, but left to be applied by those who are well acquainted with the sacred story; and, lik…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 40)

40. provided--with divine forethought from eternity (compare Ge 22:8, 14). some better thing for us--(He 7:19); than they had here. They had not in this world, “apart from us” (so the Greek is for “without us,” that is, they had to wait for us for), the clear revelation of the promised salvation actually accomplished, as we now have it in Christ; in their state, beyond the grave their souls also s…