Hebrews 11:13-16

13All these people continued to believe God until they died. But they did not receive all the things that God had promised to give them. They were like people who saw those things far away. That made them happy. These people understood that they lived as strangers and travellers on the earth.

14People who live in that way show that they expect to live somewhere else one day. That is the place where they will really be at home.

15They were not thinking about the country that they had left. They could have gone back there if they really wanted to.

16No, they wanted very much to go to a better place, in heaven. For that reason, God is not ashamed for them to call him their God. He has already prepared a city for them to live in.