For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: {conversation...: or, we live or conduct ourselves as citizens of heaven, or, for obtaining heaven}

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, {so many} as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.

But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding {and} eternal weight of glory;

By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as {in} a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

Arise ye, and depart; for this {is} not {your} rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy {you}, even with a sore destruction.

But this I say, brethren, the time {is} short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. {rest: or, keeping of a sabbath}

In my Father's house are many mansions: if {it were} not {so}, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker {is} God.

But now they desire a better {country}, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.

Therefore {we are} always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage {are} an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.