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NASB | Hebrews 11:40 because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from us they would not be made perfect. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Hebrews 11:40 because God had us in mind and had something better for us, so that they [these men and women of authentic faith] would not be made perfect [that is, completed in Him] apart from us. |
Subject: Superior Hope |
Bible Note: Good stuff, Country Girl! (With regard to immediate punishment, three things popped into my mind: (1) Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5) (2) the sick or dead who take communion "unworthily" (1 Corinthians 11) and (3) chastening/scourging of God's children in Hebrews 12. I doubt, though, that these directly relate to failure to assemble.) I have to wonder: If God has gone to such lengths to bring us all together in Christ (Ephesians 2), why would anyone want to repudiate His Word and will by avoiding corporate worship? Perhaps this represents something more fundamentally amiss in a person than that he/she is in disobedience. |