Cross references

Hebrews 11:40

God had planned something better for us, so that together with us they would be made perfect.

Hebrews 11:40 BSB

Hebrews 11:40 has 10 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 9 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Revelation 6:11 (11 votes) and Hebrews 8:6 (8 votes). 27 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from Genesis 22 to Revelation 6.

GenesisMalachiMatthewRevelation

Which verses does Hebrews 11:40 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Then 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.

  2. Now, however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises.

  3. Day 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 right hand of God. …

  4. And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him

  5. (for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.

  6. God presented Him as an atoning sacrifice in His blood through faith, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand. He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and to justify the one who has faith in Jesus.

  7. By 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 the gifts and sacrifices being offered were unable to cleanse the conscience of the worshiper. …

  8. So 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.

  9. in 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 sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

  10. Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

Which verses point to Hebrews 11:40?

The 10 strongest of 27.