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Hebrews 11

1 What faith is, and a commendation of the same. 9 Without faith we can not please God. 16 The steadfast belief of the fathers in old time.
1.Now faith is the ground of things, which are hoped for, and the evidence of things which are not seen.
2.For by it our elders were well areported of.
3.*Through faith we understand that the world was ordained by the word of God, so that the things which we see, are not made of things, which bdid appear.
4.By faith Able *offered unto God a greater sacrifice then Cain, cby *the which he obtained witness that he was drighteous, God testifying of his gifts: by the which faith also he being dead, yet espeaketh.
5.By faith was *fEnoch taken away, that he should not see death: neither was he found: for God had taken him away: for before he was taken away, he was reported of, that he had pleased God.
6.But without faith it is unpossible to please him: for he that cometh to God, must believe that God is, and that he is ga rewarder of them that seek him.
7.By faith *Noe being warned of God of the things which were as yet not seen, moved with reverence, prepared the Arke to the saving of his household, through the which Arke he condemned the world, and was made heir of the righteousness, which is by faith.
8.By faith *Abraham, when he was called, obeyed God, to go out into a place, which he should afterward receive for inheritance, and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
9.By faith he abode in the land of promise, as in a strange country, as one that dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob heirs with him of the same promise.
10.For he looked for a city having a hfoundation, whose builder and maker is God.
11.Through faith *Sarra also received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful which had promised.
12.And therefore sprang there of one, even of one which was idead, so many as *the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand of the sea shore which is innumerable.
13.All these died in faith, and kreceived not the promises, but saw them la far off, and believed them, and received them thankfully, and confessed that they were mstrangers and pilgrims on the earth.
14.For they that say such things, declare plainly that they seek a country.
15.And if they had been mindful of nthat country, from whence they came out, they had leisure to have returned.
16.But now they desire a better, that is an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
17.By faith *Abraham offered up Isaac, when he owas tried, and he that had received the promises, offered his only begotten son.
18.(To whom it was said, *In Isaac shall thy seed be called)
19.For he considered that God was able to raise him up even from the dead: from whence he received him also after a sort.
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 *^leaning on the end of his staff, worshipped God.
22.By faith *Joseph when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel, and gave commandment of 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, neither feared they the King’s *commandment.
24.By faith *Moses when he was come to age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,
25.And chose rather to suffer adversity with the people of God, then to enjoy the ppleasures of sin for a season,
26.Esteeming the rebuke of Christ greater riches then the treasures of Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward.
27.By faith he forsook Egypt, and feared not the fierceness of the King: for he endured, as he that saw him which is invisible.
28.Through faith he ordained the *Passover and the effusion of blood, lest he that destroyed the first born, should touch them.
29.By faith they *passed through the red sea as by dry land, which when the Egyptians had assayed to do, they 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 which obeyed not, when *she had received the spies peaceably.
32.And what shall I more say? for the time would be to short for me to tell of *Gedeon, of *Barac & of *Sampson, & of *Jephte, also of *David, & Samuel, & of the Prophets:
33.Which through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained the qpromises, stopped the mouths of lions,
34.Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, of weak were made strong, waxed valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
35.The rwomen received their dead raised to life: other also were racked, and would not be delivered, that they might receive a better resurrection.
36.And others have been tried by mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover by bonds and prisonment.
37.They were stoned, they were hewn a sunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword, they wandered up and down in sheep’s skins, and in goat’s skins, being destitute, afflicted, and tormented:
38.Whom the world was not worthy of: they wandered in wildernesses and mountains, & dens, & caves of the earth.
39.And these all through faith obtained good report, and received snot the promise,
40.God providing a better thing for us, that theyt without us should not be made perfect.

Notes

2-a.
Have been approved, and so obtained salvation.
3-*.
Gen. 1.3, John 1.10.
3-b.
For God made all things of nothing.
4-*.
Gen. 4.4, Mat. 23.35.
4-d.
Because God received him to mercy, therefore he imputed him righteous.
4-e.
That is, liveth.
5-*.
Gen. 5.24, Eccles. 44.16 and 49.14.
5-f.
For Enoche and Elias taking up was such a thing, as is spoken of, 1 Cor. 15.51, and 1 Thes. 4.17.
6-g.
First God must find us before we can seek him: then we must seek him with a pure heart in Christ, who is revealed in his word: and thereby we learn to believe God’s free mercy towards us in his Son, through whom we obtain the reward of his promise, and not of our deserts.
7-*.
Gen. 6.13, Eccles. 44.17.
8-*.
Gen. 12.4.
10-h.
For all things in the world are subject to corruption.
11-*.
Gen. 17.19 and 21.1.
12-*.
Eccles. 44.21.
12-i.
Even as dead.
13-k.
Which was the enjoying of the land of Canaan.
13-l.
With the eyes of faith.
13-m.
And therefore put not their confidence in things of this world.
15-n.
That is, of Mesopotamia.
17-*.
Gen. 22.10, Eccles. 44.20.
17-o.
For it might seem to the flesh that the promise was contrary to this commandment, to sacrifice his son.
18-*.
Gen. 21.12, Rom. 9.7.
20-*.
Gen. 27.28.
21-*.
Gen. 48.15.
21-*-1.
Gen. 47.31.
21-^.
Or, worshipped toward the end of his staff.
22-*.
Gen. 50.24.
23-*.
Exod, 2.2, Act. 7.20.
23-*-1.
Exod. 1.16.
24-*.
Exod. 2.11.
25-p.
The enticings of the world, which draw us from God, and which we can not use without provoking of God’s anger.
28-*.
Exod. 12.22.
29-*.
Exod. 14.22.
30-*.
Josh. 6.20.
31-*.
Josh. 6.23.
31-*-1.
Josh. 2.1.
32-*.
Judg. 6.11.
32-*-1.
Judg. 4.6.
32-*-2.
Judg. 13.24.
32-*-3.
Judg. 11.1 and 12.7.
32-*-4.
1 Sam. 1.20 and 13.14.
33-q.
Or fruit thereof.
35-r.
As Elias raised up the widow of Sarepta’s son, and Eliseus the Sumanite’s son.
39-s.
They had not such clear light of Christ as we: for they looked for that which we have: therefore it were shame for us, if at last we have not as great constancy as they.
40-t.
For we are all one body together.