Hebrews:11:1-19

wesleynt@Hebrews:11:1 @ Now faith is the subsistence of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

wesleynt@Hebrews:11:2 @ And by it the elders obtained a good testimony.

wesleynt@Hebrews:11:3 @ Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were made of things which do not appear.

wesleynt@Hebrews:11:4 @ By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained a testimony that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and by it, being dead he yet speaketh.

wesleynt@Hebrews:11:5 @ By faith Enoch was translated so as not to see death, and was not found, because God had translated him; for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

wesleynt@Hebrews:11:6 @ 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.

wesleynt@Hebrews:11:7 @ By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his houshold, by which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

wesleynt@Hebrews:11:8 @ By faith Abraham, being called to go out into the place which he was to receive for an inheritance, obeyed and went out, not knowing whither he went.

wesleynt@Hebrews:11:9 @ By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the joint heirs of the same promise.

wesleynt@Hebrews:11:10 @ For he looked for the city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

wesleynt@Hebrews:11:11 @ By faith Sarah also herself received power to conceive seed, even when she was past age, because she accounted him faithful who had promised.

wesleynt@Hebrews:11:12 @ Therefore there sprang even from one, and him as it were dead, as the stars of heaven for multitude, and as the sand which is on the sea-shore innumerable.

wesleynt@Hebrews:11:13 @ All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and embraced them, and confest that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.

wesleynt@Hebrews:11:14 @ For they who speak thus, shew plainly, that they seek their own country.

wesleynt@Hebrews:11:15 @ And truly if they had been mindful of that from which they came out, they might have had opportunity to return.

wesleynt@Hebrews:11:16 @ But they now desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he hath prepared a city for them.

wesleynt@Hebrews:11:17 @ By faith Abraham, being tried, offered up Isaac, and he that had received the promises, offered up his only begotten son:

wesleynt@Hebrews:11:18 @ Of whom it had been said, In Isaac shall thy seed be called:

wesleynt@Hebrews:11:19 @ Accounting that God was able even to raise him from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.

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