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(Joshua–Malachi)

Hebrews 11:40

In 9 translations

BSB
God had planned something better for us, so that together with us they would be made perfect.
KJV
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.
ASV
God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
LSV
God, having provided something better for us, that apart from us they might not be made perfect.
YLT
God for us something better having provided, that apart from us they might not be made perfect.
DBY
God having foreseen some better thing for us, that they should not be made perfect without us.Elohim
DRC
God providing some better thing for us, that they should not be perfected without us.
GNV
God prouiding a better thing for vs, that they without vs should not be made perfite.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
τοῦ θεοῦ περὶ ἡμῶν κρεῖττόν τι προβλεψαμένου, ἵνα μὴ χωρὶς ἡμῶν τελειωθῶσιν.
RP2018
τοῦ θεοῦ περὶ ἡμῶν κρεῖττόν τι προβλεψαμένου, ἵνα μὴ χωρὶς ἡμῶν τελειωθῶσιν.
TR-Boyd
τοῦ Θεοῦ περὶ ἡμῶν κρεῖττόν τι προβλεψαμένου, ἵνα μὴ χωρὶς ἡμῶν τελειωθῶσι.
SCR1894
του θεου περι ημων κρειττον τι προβλεψαμενου ινα μη χωρις ημων τελειωθωσιν

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Revelation 6:11Then each of them was given a white robe and told to rest a little while longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers, were killed, just as they had been killed.
  • Hebrews 10:11–14Day after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when this Priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the…
  • Hebrews 8:6Now, however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises.
  • Hebrews 5:9And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him
  • Hebrews 7:19(for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.
  • Romans 3:25–26God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand. He did this to demonstrate…
  • Hebrews 9:23So it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
  • Hebrews 9:8–15By this arrangement the Holy Spirit was showing that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still standing. It is an illustration for the present time, because…
  • Hebrews 12:23–24in joyful assembly, to the congregation of the firstborn, enrolled in heaven. You have come to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the…
  • Hebrews 7:22Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

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