11Hebrews 11

1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.Select Hebrews 11:1

2For by it the elders obtained a good report.Select Hebrews 11:2

3Through 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 appeared.Select Hebrews 11:3

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

5By 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.Select Hebrews 11:5

6But 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.Select Hebrews 11:6

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

8By faith Abraham, when he was called to remove into a place which he should afterwards receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out not knowing whither he was going.Select Hebrews 11:8

9By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as [in] a foreign country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:Select Hebrews 11:9

10For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker [is] God.Select Hebrews 11:10

11Through faith also Sarah 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.Select Hebrews 11:11

12Therefore there sprang even from 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.Select Hebrews 11:12

13These 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.Select Hebrews 11:13

14For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.Select Hebrews 11:14

15And truly, if they had been mindful of that [country] from whence they came, they might have had opportunity to return.Select Hebrews 11:15

16But now they desire a better [country], that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city.Select Hebrews 11:16

17By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only-begotten [son],Select Hebrews 11:17

18Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:Select Hebrews 11:18

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

20By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.Select Hebrews 11:20

21By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshiped, [leaning] upon the top of his staff.Select Hebrews 11:21

22By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.Select Hebrews 11:22

23By faith Moses when he was born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw [he was] a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.Select Hebrews 11:23

24By faith Moses, when he had come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;Select Hebrews 11:24

25Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;Select Hebrews 11:25

26Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he had respect to the recompense of the reward.Select Hebrews 11:26

27By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.Select Hebrews 11:27

28Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the first-born should touch them.Select Hebrews 11:28

29By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry [land]: which the Egyptians essaying to do were drowned.Select Hebrews 11:29

30By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encompassed seven days.Select Hebrews 11:30

31By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, as she had received the spies with peace.Select Hebrews 11:31

32And what shall I say more? for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, and [of] Barak, and [of] Samson, and [of] Jephthah, [of] David also, and Samuel, and [of] the prophets:Select Hebrews 11:32

33Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,Select Hebrews 11:33

34Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.Select Hebrews 11:34

35Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:Select Hebrews 11:35

36And others had trial of [cruel] mockings and scourgings, and, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:Select Hebrews 11:36

37They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheep-skins, and goat-skins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;Select Hebrews 11:37

38(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and [in] mountains, and [in] dens and caves of the earth.Select Hebrews 11:38

39And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:Select Hebrews 11:39

40God having provided some better [thing] for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.Select Hebrews 11:40