14For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
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For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. …
But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. …
Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-17)The design of Christ in giving himself for us is that he may purchase to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works . Now the apostle calls the believing Hebrews to the performance of many excellent duties, in which it becomes Christians to excel. I. To brotherly love (Heb. 13:1), by which he does not only mean a general affection to all men, as our brethren by nature, all made of the same b…
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