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HEB 11:1–11:40 ©

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Faith definition and examples

11:1 Faith definition and examples

11Now faith is the assurance that the things we hope for will come to pass and the conviction that even what we can’t see is real, 2because those are what our predecessors were commended for. 3By faith we understand that time was formed by God’s command because the visible universe was not made from visible materials.[ref]

4By faith Abel offered a more satisfactory sacrifice to God than Kain,[ref] and as a result, he was declared to be righteous when God testified about his gifts, and through his faith, he still speaks despite being long dead.

5By faith Enoch was transported directly to heaven without dying. ‘His body was never found because God transported him,’[ref] because before he was transported, it was testified that he pleased God, 6and without faith it’s impossible to please him. Because it’s necessary for anyone who approaches God to believe that he exists, and that he rewards those who search for him.

7By faith godly Noah built a box to save his family after he was warned[ref] about things that had never been seen before, thus condemning the world and becoming an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

8By faith, Abraham submitted when he was called[ref] and travelled to the place that he was going to receive as an inheritance—departing without even knowing where he was going. 9By faith he camped as a stranger in the promised land,[ref] living in tents with Isaac and Yacobfellow heirs of the same promise— 10because he was waiting for a city with proper foundations—the city with God as its craftsman and builder.

11By faith even Sarah herself received the power to conceive a child when she was past that age,[ref] because she considered that the one who had made the promise would be faithful to his word. 12So it was that descendants came from that one man in his old age[ref] and they became as numerous as the stars in the sky and uncountable like grains of sand on the beach.

13All of those people went on to die,[ref] not having received everything that was promised but only seeing and welcoming it all from a distance, having admitted that they were strangers and foreigners here on the earth. 14People who talk like that make it clear that they’re looking for a new place to make their home— 15if they’d been meaning the place that they left, they would have already had time to go back there— 16so now they’re aspiring to a better place, i.e., a heavenly home. Therefore God isn’t ashamed of them or of being called their God, because he has prepared a city for them.

17By faith, Abraham when he was tested offered up Isaac.[ref] He had received the promises and offered his only son that he’d given birth to— 18the one about which it had been said: ‘Your descendants will be named through Isaac.’ 19Abraham had reckoned that God was powerful enough to bring him back to life from the dead, and in a manner of speaking, that’s what happened.

20By faith, Isaac gave a blessing to Yacob and Esau.[ref]

21By faith, when Yacob was dying he gave a blessing to both of Yosef’s sons,[ref] and bowed over the top of his walking stick.

22By faith, when Yosef was dying, he spoke about how Israel’s descendants would leave Egypt in the future,[ref] and gave them instructions about taking his bones.

23By faith when Mosheh was born, his parents hid him for three months when they saw how he was such a beautiful baby,[ref] and they weren’t afraid to disobey the king’s ruling.

24By faith when Mosheh had become powerful, refused to be called Far’oh’s (Pharaoh’s) daughter’s son[ref] 25and chose to suffer hardship along with God’s people rather than having the temporary enjoyment of sin. 26He calculated that enduring derision for the messiah was better than the riches of Egypt because he was considering the future reward.

27By faith, Mosheh wasn’t afraid of the king’s anger when he left Egypt and persevered because he could see what was invisible. 28By faith, he initiated the Passover Celebration and the sprinkling of blood,[ref] so that the one destroying the eldest offspring wouldn’t touch their families.

29By faith, they crossed through the Red Sea as if it was dry land,[ref] but when the Egyptians tried they were drowned.

30By faith, Yericho’s walls collapsed after they’d walked around them for seven days.[ref]

31By faith, Rahab the prostitute didn’t die along with all the others in the city who mocked God,[ref] because she had peacefully accommodated the spies.

32So what else should I say? I don’t have time to describe Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jepthah, and about David and Samuel[ref] and the prophets 33who by faith conquered kingdoms, acted righteously, obtained promises, shut lion’s mouths,[ref] 34survived the power of a fiery furnace untouched,[ref] escaped slashing swords, overcome their own weaknesses, became mighty warriors, and routed foreign armies. 35Women received back those who’d died and came back to life, and others were tortured—not relenting so they’d be set free, but instead looking forward to obtaining a better reward in the next age.[ref] 36Others were mocked and beaten, and some were put in chains and imprisoned.[ref] 37They had rocks thrown at them to kill them, they were sawn in half, they were tempted, they were killed with swords.[ref] Living in poverty, they went around in skins of goats and sheep, and were mistreated by others. 38This world wasn’t worthy of having them. They wandered around wilderness areas and on hills and lived in caves and in holes in the ground.

39All of them were proven by their faith, yet they didn’t actually receive what had been promised. 40God had planned to have something better so that we and they would be made perfect together.


11:3: Gen 1:1; Psa 33:6,9; Yhn 1:3.

11:4: Gen 4:3-10.

11:5: Gen 5:21-24 (LXX).

11:7: Gen 6:13-22.

11:8: Gen 12:1-5.

11:9: Gen 35:27.

11:11: Gen 18:11-14; 21:2.

11:12: Gen 15:5; 22:17; 32:12.

11:13: Gen 23:4; 1Ch 29:15; Psa 39:12.

11:17: Gen 22:1-14.

11:20: Gen 27:27-29,39-40.

11:21: a Gen 48:1-20; b Gen 47:31 (LXX).

11:22: Gen 50:24-25; Exo 13:19.

11:23: a Gen 2:2; b Exo 1:22.

11:24: Exo 2:10-12.

11:28: Exo 12:21-30.

11:29: Exo 14:21-31.

11:30: Josh 6:12-21.

11:31: a Josh 6:22-25; b Josh 2:1-21.

11:32: a Jdg 6:11–8:32; b Jdg 4:6–5:31; c Jdg 13:2–16:31; d Jdg 11:1–12:7; e 1Sam 16:11Ki 2:11; f 1Sam 1:1–25:1.

11:33: Dan 6:1-27.

11:34: Dan 3:1-30.

11:35: 1Ki 17:17-24; 2Ki 4:25-37.

11:36: 1Ki 22:26-27; 2Ch 18:25-26; Jer 20:2; 37:15; 38:6.

11:37: 2Ch 24:21.

HEB 11:1–11:40 ©

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