[Hebrews 11]

 

             ^11:1 Now faith is the essence of things being hoped for, a conviction of matters being not seen. ^11:2 For^* the elders were witnessed in this, ^11:3 in faith, we perceive the ages to have been completed with the declaration of God toward the things seen, not to have become from the things which appear.

               ^11:4 In faith, Abel offered a more excellent sacrifice to God than Cain, through which he was witnessed to be righteous, God testifying upon the basis of his gifts and through it, he still speaks, although he died. {Gen 4:4}

             ^11:5 In faith, Enoch was transferred, not to see death, and he was not being found, because God transferred him, for^* it has been testified of him for God to have been well pleased before his transfer. ^11:6 But without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to God, for^* it is essential for the one coming near to God to believe that he is and that he becomes a rewarder to the ones seeking him out. {Gen 5:24}

               ^11:7 In faith, Noah was divinely-warned concerning things not yet seen, and being scared, prepared an ark ^*for the salvation of his house, through which he condemned the world and he became an heir of righteousness according-to faith. {Gen 6:8, 14}

             ^11:8 In faith, Abraham obeyed^*, being called to go forth to the place which he was about to receive ^*for an inheritance, and he went forth, not knowing where he was going. {Gen 12:1-2, 5}

               ^11:9 In faith, he sojourned in the land of promise, as an alien, dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the joint heirs of the same promise. ^11:10 For^* he was waiting for the city which has the foundations, whose craftsman and contractor is God. {Gen 27:11-12, 14}

               ^11:11 In faith, even Sarah herself received power ^*for conception of seed and was bearing a son contrary to the time of her fertile age^*, since she deemed the one who promised it faithful. ^11:12 And hence these were fathered from one impotently dead man, just-as the stars of heaven in a multitude and as innumerable as the sand beside the sea shore. {Gen 18:1-33, 22:17}

 

             ^11:13 These all died according-to faith and did not receive the promises, but they saw them and greeted them from faraway and confessed, They are strangers and travelers upon the earth. ^11:14 For^* the ones saying such things are disclosing, They are seeking after a fatherland. ^11:15 And if they were indeed remembering that land from which they went forth, they would have had an opportunity to revisit. ^11:16 But now they are aspiring for themselves to a better land, this thing is a heavenly one. Hence God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for^* he prepared a city for them.

 

             ^11:17 In faith, Abraham, being tested, has offered up Isaac. And he who accepted the promises was offering up the only begotten son of his, ^11:18 he to whom it was spoken, Seed will be called to you in Isaac. {Gen 21:12} ^11:19 He reasoned that God is able to raise him up even from the dead, from where he also got him back in a figure.

               ^11:20 In faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, concerning future things.

              ^11:21 In faith, Jacob, while dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshiped, resting upon the tip of his staff.

              ^11:22 In faith, Joseph, while dying^*, remembered things concerning the exodus of the sons of Israel, and commanded them concerning his bones. {Gen 21:1, 12, 50:24}

             ^11:23 In faith, Moses was born and was hidden three months by the fathers, because they saw he was a handsome child, and they were not afraid of the command of the king.

               ^11:24 In faith, Mosedenied to be called^* the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, ^11:25 and selected for himself to be mistreated together-with the people of God rather than to have temporary enjoyment of sin. ^11:26 He deemed the reproach of the Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, for^* he was looking toward the reward.

             ^11:27 In faith, he left Egypt, not being afraid of the fury of the king, for^* he persevered, as seeing the invisible one.

               ^11:28 In faith, he has made^* the Passover and the splashing of the blood on the door frames, in-order-that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.

               ^11:29 In faith, they crossed over the Red Sea as if through dry land, of which the Egyptians took an attempt at crossing and were swallowed up. {Exo 2:2, 11, 15, 12:11, 18, 14:22}

             ^11:30 In faith, the walls of Jericho fell down after, they were surrounded upon seven days.

               ^11:31 In faith, Rahab the prostitute did not perish together-with the ones who were disobedient, she accepted the spies with peace. {Jos 6:17-23, Jos 2:1}

 

             ^11:32 And what more should I say? For^* the time will fail me describing the things concerning Gideon, Barak, and both Samson and Jephthah, both David and Samuel, and the prophets, ^11:33 who through faith conquered kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, sealed the mouths of lions, ^11:34 quenched the fiery power, fled away from the edges of the sword, were empowered away from weakness, became mighty in war, the encampments of aliens bowed down. ^11:35 Women received back their dead from a resurrection. But others were tortured and did not accept their redemption; in-order-that they might obtain a better resurrection, ^11:36 and others received a trial from mockings and scourges, but still more, from bonds and prison. ^11:37 They were stoned; they were sawed in two; they were tempted; they died in murder from the sword; they went around in sheepskins, and in goat hides; they were lacking, being afflicted, and being mistreated ^11:38 (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in the wildernesses and mountains and caves and the holes of the earth. ^11:39 And all these were testified of through their faith but did not get the promise for themselves, ^11:40 God foresaw something better concerning us, in-order-that they should not be completed separate from us. {Jud 6:4, 11, 15, 1Sa 7:1-17, 2Sa 2:1-32, 2Sa 8:1-18, Jud 14:1-20, Dan 6:1-28}