히브리서 11장 13 ~ 16절

히브리서 11장 13 ~ 16절

이 사람들은 다 믿음을 따라 죽었으며 약속을 받지 못하였으되 그것들을 멀리서 보고 환영하며 또 땅에서는 외국인과 나그네로라 증거하였으니

이같이 말하는 자들은 본향 찾는 것을 나타냄이라

저희가 나온바 본향을 생각하였더면 돌아갈 기회가 있었으려니와

저희가 이제는 더 나은 본향을 사모하니 곧 하늘에 있는 것이라 그러므로 하나님이 저희 하나님이라 일컬음 받으심을 부끄러워 아니하시고 저희를 위하여 한 성을 예비하셨느니라

HEBREWS 11 : 13 ~ 16

NIV:
All these poeple were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth.

People who say such things show that they ware looking for a country of their own.

If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.

Instead, they were longing for a better country - a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

CEV:
Every one of those people died. But they still had faith, even though they had not received what they had been promised. They were glad just to see these things from far away, and they agreed that they were only strangers and foreigners on this earth.

When people talk this way, it is clear that they are looking for a place to call their own.

If they had been talking about the land where they had once lived, they could have gone back at any time.

But they were looking forward to a better home in heaven. That's why God wasn't ashamed for them to call him their God. He even built a city for them.