Verse 16
Hebrews 11:16
Young's Literal Translation
16
but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God (Elohim) is not ashamed of them, to be called their God (Elohim), for He did prepare for them a city.
Original Language Text
greek
νῦν δὲ κρείττονος ὀρέγονται, τοῦτ’ ἔστιν ἐπουρανίου. διὸ οὐκ ἐπαισχύνεται αὐτοὺς ὁ θεὸς θεὸς ἐπικαλεῖσθαι αὐτῶν, ἡτοίμασεν γὰρ αὐτοῖς πόλιν.
English Translation
But now they aspire to something better, that is, heavenly. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
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Chapter 11 Context
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And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,
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for in this were the elders testified of;
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by faith we understand the ages to have been prepared by a saying of God (Elohim), in regard to the...
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by faith a better sacrifice did Abel offer to God (Elohim) than Cain, through which he was testified...
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By faith Enoch was translated -- not to see death, and was not found, because God (Elohim) did trans...
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and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God (Eloh...
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By faith Noah, having been divinely warned concerning the things not yet seen, having feared, did pr...
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By faith Abraham, being called, did obey, to go forth to the place that he was about to receive for...
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by faith he did sojourn in the land of the promise as a strange country, in tabernacles having dwelt...
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for he was looking for the city having the foundations, whose artificer and constructor [is] God (El...
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By faith also Sarah herself did receive power to conceive seed, and she bare after the time of life,...
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wherefore, also from one were begotten -- and that of one who had become dead -- as the stars of the...
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In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and havin...
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for those saying such things make manifest that they seek a country;
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and if, indeed, they had been mindful of that from which they came forth, they might have had an opp...
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but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God (Elohim) is not ashamed of them,...
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By faith Abraham hath offered up Isaac, being tried, and the only begotten he did offer up who did r...
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of whom it was said -- 'In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;'
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reckoning that even out of the dead God (Elohim) is able to raise up, whence also in a figure he did...
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By faith, concerning coming things, Isaac did bless Jacob and Esau;
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by faith Jacob dying -- each of the sons of Joseph did bless, and did bow down upon the top of his s...
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by faith, Joseph dying, concerning the outgoing of the sons of Israel did make mention, and concerni...
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By faith Moses, having been born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child co...
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by faith Moses, having become great, did refuse to be called a son of the daughter of Pharaoh,
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having chosen rather to be afflicted with the people of God (Elohim), than to have sin's pleasure fo...
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greater wealth having reckoned the reproach of the Christ than the treasures in Egypt, for he did lo...
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by faith he left Egypt behind, not having been afraid of the wrath of the king, for, as seeing the I...
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by faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that He who is destroying the first-...
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By faith they did pass through the Red Sea as through dry land, which the Egyptians having received...
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by faith the walls of Jericho did fall, having been surrounded for seven days;
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by faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with those who disbelieved, having received the spies with...
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And what shall I yet say? for the time will fail me recounting about Gideon, Barak also, and Samson,...
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who through faith did subdue kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped mouths of l...
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quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouth of the sword, were made powerful out of infirmities, b...
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Women received by a rising again their dead, and others were tortured, not accepting the redemption,...
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and others of mockings and scourgings did receive trial, and yet of bonds and imprisonment;
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they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tried; in the killing of the sword they died; th...
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of whom the world was not worthy; in deserts wandering, and [in] mountains, and [in] caves, and [in]...
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and these all, having been testified to through the faith, did not receive the promise,
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God (Elohim) for us something better having provided, that apart from us they might not be made perf...
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