Hebrews 11:5
Good News Translation
It was faith that kept Enoch from dying. Instead, he was taken up to God, and nobody could find him, because God had taken him up. The scripture says that before Enoch was taken up, he had pleased God.

New Revised Standard Version
By faith Enoch was taken so that he did not experience death; and “he was not found, because God had taken him.” For it was attested before he was taken away that “he had pleased God.”

Contemporary English Version
Enoch had faith and did not die. He pleased God, and God took him up to heaven. This is why his body was never found.

New American Bible
By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and “he was found no more because God had taken him.” Before he was taken up, he was attested to have pleased God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
By faith Henoch was translated that he should not see death: and he was not found because God had translated him. For before his translation he had testimony that he pleased God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

By faith Henoch was translated that he should not see death: and he was not found because God had translated him. For before his translation he had testimony that he pleased God.

Enoch.

Genesis 5:22-24 And Henoch walked with God: and lived after he begot Mathusala, three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters. . . .

Luke 3:37 Who was of Mathusale, who was of Henoch, who was of Jared, who was of Malaleel, who was of Cainan,

Jude 1:14 Now of these Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying: Behold, the Lord cometh with thousands of his saints:

translated.

2 Kings 2:11 And as they went on, walking and talking together, behold, a fiery chariot and fiery horses parted them both asunder: and Elias went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

Psalm 89:48 Who is the man that shall live, and not see death: that shall deliver his soul from the hand of hell?

John 8:51,52 Amen, amen, I say to you: If any man keep my word, he shall not see death for ever. . . .

and was.

2 Kings 2:16,17 And they said to him: Behold, there are with thy servants, fifty strong men, that can go, and seek thy master, lest, perhaps, the spirit of the Lord, hath taken him up and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said: Do not send. . . .

Jeremiah 36:26 And the king commanded Jeremiel the son of Amelech, and Saraias the son of Ezriel, and Selemias the son of Abdeel, to take up Baruch the scribe, and Jeremiah the prophet: but the Lord hid them.

Revelation 11:9-12 And they of the tribes and peoples and tongues and nations shall see their bodies for three days and a half: and they shall not suffer their bodies to be laid in sepulchres. . . .

this testimony.

Hebrews 11:3,4 By faith we understand that the world was framed by the word of God: that from invisible things visible things might be made. . . .

that he.

Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please God. For he that cometh to God must believe that he is: and is a rewarder to them that seek him.

Genesis 5:22 And Henoch walked with God: and lived after he begot Mathusala, three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

Romans 8:8,9 And they who are in the flesh cannot please God. . . .

1 Thessalonians 2:4 But as we were approved by God that the gospel should be committed to us: even so we speak, not as pleasing men but God, who proveth our hearts.

1 John 3:22 And whatsoever we shall ask, we shall receive of him: because we keep his commandments and do those things which are pleasing in his sight.

Context
The Faith of Abel, Enoch, Noah
4By faith Abel offered to God a sacrifice exceeding that of Cain, by which he obtained a testimony that he was just, God giving testimony to his gifts. And by it he being dead yet speaketh. 5By faith Henoch was translated that he should not see death: and he was not found because God had translated him. For before his translation he had testimony that he pleased God. 6But without faith it is impossible to please God. For he that cometh to God must believe that he is: and is a rewarder to them that seek him.…
Cross References
Genesis 5:21
And Henoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Mathusala.

Genesis 5:24
And he walked with God, and was seen no more: because God took him.

2 Kings 2:1
And it came to pass, when the Lord would take up Elias, into heaven, by a whirlwind, that Elias and Eliseus were going from Galgal.

Luke 2:26
And he had received an answer from the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death before he had seen the Christ of the Lord.

John 8:51
Amen, amen, I say to you: If any man keep my word, he shall not see death for ever.

Hebrews 2:9
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour: that, through the grace of God he might taste death for all.

Hebrews 11:4
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