13. In belief all these died, not having received the promises, but seeing them from a distance, welcomed and embraced them, and confessed that they were aliens and strangers on the earth.
14. For those who speak this way make it clear that they seek a fatherland.
15. And yet, if they had indeed kept remembering that place from which they had come out, they would have had the chance to return.
16. But now they long for a better place, that is, a heavenly. Therefore Elohim is not ashamed to be called their Elohim, for He has prepared a city for them.