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title: Hebrews 11
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**1 **Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. **2 **For by it the elders obtained a good report.

**3 **Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

**4 **By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. **5 **By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. **6 **But without faith *it is* impossible to please *him*: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and *that* he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. **7 **By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

**8 **By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. **9 **By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as *in* a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: **10 **For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker *is* God. **11 **Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. **12 **Therefore sprang there even of one, 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.

**13 **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. **14 **For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. **15 **And truly, if they had been mindful of that *country* from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. **16 **But now they desire a better *country*, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

**17 **By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten *son*, **18 **Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: **19 **Accounting that God *was* able to raise *him* up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.

**20 **By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. **21 **By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, *leaning* upon the top of his staff. **22 **By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.

**23 **By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw *he was* a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment. **24 **By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; **25 **Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; **26 **Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward. **27 **By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible. **28 **Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them. **29 **By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry *land*: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.

**30 **By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.

**31 **By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.

**32 **And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and *of* Barak, and *of* Samson, and *of* Jephthae; *of* David also, and Samuel, and *of* the prophets: **33 **Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, **34 **Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. **35 **Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: **36 **And others had trial of *cruel* mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: **37 **They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; **38 **(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and *in* mountains, and *in* dens and caves of the earth.

**39 **And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: **40 **God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.