Hebrews 11:40
Hebrews 11:39-40 The Message (MSG)
Not one of these people, even though their lives of faith were exemplary, got their hands on what was promised. God had a better plan for us: that their faith and our faith would come together to make one completed whole, their lives of faith not complete apart from ours.
Hebrews 11:40 King James Version (KJV)
God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Hebrews 11:40 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from us they would not be made perfect.
Hebrews 11:40 New Century Version (NCV)
God planned to give us something better so that they would be made perfect, but only together with us.
Hebrews 11:40 American Standard Version (ASV)
God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
Hebrews 11:40 New International Version (NIV)
since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.
Hebrews 11:40 New King James Version (NKJV)
God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.
Hebrews 11:40 Amplified Bible (AMP)
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.
Hebrews 11:40 New Living Translation (NLT)
For God had something better in mind for us, so that they would not reach perfection without us.