These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
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In parallel with1 Peter 2:11
Peter addresses believers as foreigners and pilgrims, the same confession Abraham's family made.
“Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;”
The same threadHebrews 11:16
They died not having received, yet God prepared a city for them and is not ashamed to be called their God.
“But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.”
The same threadHebrews 11:39-40
Their story is unfinished without us: apart from us they will not be made perfect.
“These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn’t receive the promise, God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.”
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The same thread (this verse)Hebrews 11:16
The strangers and pilgrims who died in faith are the ones God prepared the city for.
“But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.”
In parallel with (this verse)1 Peter 2:11
The faithful of the old covenant confessed the same thing: strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
“Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;”