In Context

13 All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar off and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.

14 For they who say such things shew clearly that they seek their country.

15 And if they had called to mind that from whence they went out, they had had opportunity to have returned;

16 but now they seek a better, that is, a heavenly; wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he has prepared for them a city.

17 By faith Abraham, when tried, offered up Isaac, and he who had received to himself the promises offered up his only begotten son,

18 as to whom it had been said, In Isaac shall thy seed be called:

Hebrews 11:16 in Other Translations