Hebrews 11:40
God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Context
This verse from Hebrews Chapter 11 connects to 10 cross-references. The faith chapter: by faith Abel offered a more acceptable sacrifice, Enoch was taken up, Noah built an ark, Abraham obeyed and sojourned as a stranger, Sarah received power to conceive. By faith Moses refused to be called the son …
Other Translations
God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
God for us something better having provided, that apart from us they might not be made perfect.
Because God had kept some better thing for us, so that it was not possible for them to become complete without us.
Cross References
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the …
To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which …
And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw …
By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better …
The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as …
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption …
It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly …
And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: