Hebrews 11
KJV Easy Read Bible

By Faith We Understand

1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.   ROM 8:24 | assurance; conviction

2For by it the elders obtained a good report.   gained

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 do appear.

Faith at the Dawn of History

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

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.   GEN 5:24 | transferred; transfer

6But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.

7By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.   GEN 6:13–22

Faith Abraham

8By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing where he went.   GEN 12:4

9By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:   tents

10For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

11Through faith also Sara 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.   GEN 17:19 | offspring; considered

12Therefore sprang there even of 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.   GEN 15:5 | in old age

The Heavenly Hope

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.   PS 39:12 | convinced; temporary residents

14For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.   clearly

15And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from where they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.   thinking

16But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for He has prepared for them a city.

The Faith of the Patriarchs

17By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,   GEN 22:1–10 | tested

18Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall your seed be called:   GEN 21:12

19Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from where also he received him in a figure.

20By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.   GEN 27:29

21By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff.   GEN 48:14

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

The Faith of Moses

23By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment.   EX 22

24By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter;   grown

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

26Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect to the recompence of the reward.   payment of reward

27By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing Him who is invisible.   left

28Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest He that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.   EX 12:21

29By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.   EX 14:26 | attempting

By Faith They Overcame

30By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.   JOS 6:4–8 | encircled

31By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.   JOS 2:20 | died

32And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:

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

34Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.   extinguished; grew

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

36And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:   jeers; floggings

37They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;   in two

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

39And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:   testimony, witness

40God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.   planned; complete





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