¹⁴ For here we do not have an enduring city,^(A) but we are looking for the city that is to come.^(B)

²⁰ But our citizenship^(A) is in heaven.^(B) And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,^(C)

²² But you have come to Mount Zion,^(A) to the city^(B) of the living God,^(C) the heavenly Jerusalem.^(D) You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly,

Living as Those Made Alive in Christ

3 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ,^(A) set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.^{(B) 2} Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.^{(C) 3} For you died,^(D) and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

¹² And so from this one man, and he as good as dead,^(A) came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.^(B)

¹³ All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised;^(C) they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance,^(D) admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth.^{(E) 14} People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. ¹⁵ If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.^{(F) 16} Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one.^(G) Therefore God is not ashamed^(H) to be called their God,^(I) for he has prepared a city^(J) for them.