Hebrews:11

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* Now (note :)An excellent description of faith by the effects , because it represents things which are but yet in hope , and sets as it were before our eyes things that are invisible .(:note ) faith is the substance of things hoped for , the evidence of things not seen . * * * * * 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 (note :)This reward is not referred to our merits , but to the free promise , as Paul teaches in Abraham the father of all the faithful , ( Rom_4:4 ).(:note ) rewarder of them that diligently seek him . * * * By faith he abode in the land of promes , as in a strange countrey , as one that dwelt in tents with Isaac and Iacob heires with him of the same promes . * For he looked for a city which hath (note :)This foundation is contrasted with their tabernacle .(:note ) foundations , whose builder and maker [is ] God . * Through faith Sara also receiued strength to conceiue seede , and was deliuered of a childe when she was past age , because she iudged him faithfull which had promised . * Therefore sprang there even of one , and him as good as (note :)As unlikely to bear children , as if he had been dead .(:note ) 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 (note :)In faith , which they had while they lived , and followed , them even to their grave .(:note ) faith , not having received the This is the figure metonymy , for the things promised . promises , but having seen them afar off , and were persuaded of [them ], and For the patriarchs were given to profess their religion by building an altar and calling on the name of the Lord when they received the promises . embraced [them ], and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth . * For they that say such things , declare plainely , that they seeke a countrey . * And if they had bene mindfull of that countrey , from whence they came out , they had leasure to haue returned . * But nowe they desire a better , that is an heauenly : wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God : for he hath prepared for them a citie . * By faith Abraham , when he was (note :)Tried by the Lord .(:note ) tried , offered up Isaac : and he that had received the Although the promises of life were made in that only begotten son Isaac , yet he appointed him to die ; and so against hope he believed in hope . promises offered up his only begotten [son ], * (To whom it was said , In Isaac shall thy seede be called .) * Accounting that God [was ] able to raise [him ] up , even from the dead ; from (note :)From which death .(:note ) whence also he received him in For there was not the true and very death of Isaac , but as it were the death , by means of which he seemed also to have risen again . a figure . * * * * * By faith Moses when he was come to age , refused to be called the sonne of Pharaohs daughter , * Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God , than to enjoy the (note :)Such pleasures as he could not enjoy , unless he provoked God 's wrath against him .(:note ) pleasures of sin for a season ; * Esteeming the rebuke of Christ greater riches then the treasures of Egypt : for he had respect vnto the recompence of the reward . * By faith he forsooke Egypt , and feared not the fiercenes of the king : for he endured , as he that sawe him which is inuisible . * Through faith he ordeined the Passeouer and the effusion of blood , least he that destroyed the first borne , should touche them . * * * * * Who through faith subdued kingdoms , wrought righteousness , obtained (note :)The fruit of the promises .(:note ) promises , stopped the mouths of lions , * Quenched the violence of fire , escaped the edge of the sworde , of weake were made strong , waxed valiant in battell , turned to flight the armies of the aliants . * * And others haue bene tryed by mockings and scourgings , yea , moreouer by bondes and prisonment . * They were stoned , they were sawn asunder , were tempted , were slain with the sword : they wandered about in (note :)In vile and rough clothing , so were the saints brought to extreme poverty , and constrained to live like beasts in the wilderness .(:note ) sheepskins and goatskins ; being destitute , afflicted , tormented ; * Whom the world was not worthie of : they wandered in wildernesses and mountaines , and dennes , and caues of the earth . * * God having provided some better thing for us , that they (note :)For their salvation depended on Christ , who was exhibited in our days .(:note ) without us should not be made perfect .

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