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2 Corinthians 5:20-21 Ambassadors from heaven
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be you reconciled to God. For He has made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.
Hebrews 11:12-16 A heavenly country
Therefore sprang there even of one [Abraham], and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a [different] country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that [earthly] country from where they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly [one]: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for He has prepared for them a city [as the capital of that country].
For the promise, that he should be the heir of the [new] world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
He never owned any part of the earth, except the cave he bought to bury his wife in. See Genesis 23:3-20.
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Ephesians 2:10-15 Naturalised aliens
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.
Wherefore remember,
that you being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "Uncircumcision" [natural humans] by that which is called the "Circumcision" [the church] in the flesh made by hands [on earth];
that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
but now in Christ Jesus you who sometimes were far off are made nigh [one with Him] by the blood of Christ.
For He is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of partition between us; having abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in Himself of two one new man, so making peace...
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