Hebrews 11:40 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

God planned to give us something very special so that we would gain eternal life with them.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

BBE:

Because God had kept some better thing for us, so that it was not possible for them to become complete without us.

DBY:

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

ERV:

God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

WEY:

for God had provided for them and us something better, so that apart from us they were not to attain to full blessedness.

WBS:

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

WEB:

God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

YLT:

God for us something better having provided, that apart from us they might not be made perfect.

Hebrews 11:40 Cross References

XREF:

Hebrews 11:16 But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He has prepared a city for them.

Revelation 6:11 And there was given to each of them a white robe; and they were told that they should rest for a little while longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brethren who were to be killed even as they had been, would be completed also. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

11:40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they {z} without us should not be made perfect.
(z) For their salvation depended on Christ, who was exhibited in our days.

PNT:

11:40 God having provided some better thing for us. The new and better covenant, the gospel, the realization of the promises made to Abraham.
That they without us should not be made perfect. That they and we together might be made complete in the city whose builder and maker is God. The full fruition, the being made complete (perfect) belongs to the heavenly state. All these ancient heroes, who died not having received the promise, need the realization of the promise in Christ to make them perfect; by that promise we also are saved.

WES:

11:40 God having provided some better thing for us - Namely, everlasting glory. That they might not be perfected without us - That is, that we might all be perfected together in heaven.

MHC:

11:39,40 The world considers that the righteous are not worthy to live in the world, and God declares the world is not worthy of them. Though the righteous and the worldlings widely differ in their judgment, they agree in this, it is not fit that good men should have their rest in this world. Therefore God receives them out of it. The apostle tells the Hebrews, that God had provided some better things for them, therefore they might be sure that he expected as good things from them. As our advantages, with the better things God has provided for us, are so much beyond theirs, so should our obedience of faith, patience of hope, and labour of love, be greater. And unless we get true faith as these believers had, they will rise up to condemn us at the last day. Let us then pray continually for the increase of our faith, that we may follow these bright examples, and be, with them, at length made perfect in holiness and happiness, and shine like the sun in the kingdom of our Father for evermore.

CONC:

Apart Attain Better Blessedness Complete Foreseen Full Kept Perfect Possible Provided

Apart Attain Better Blessedness Foreseen Full Kept Perfect Planned Possible Provided Something Together

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