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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2This is what the ancients were commended for. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4By faith Abel brought God a better offering than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous, when God spoke well of his offerings. And by faith Abel still speaks, even though he is dead. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death: "He could not be found, because God had taken him away." For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that is in keeping with faith. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful who had made the promise. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Instead, they were longing for a better country--a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18even though God had said to him, "It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned." |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph's sons, and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22By faith Joseph, when his end was near, spoke about the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and gave instructions concerning the burial of his bones. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23By faith Moses' parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king's edict. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh's daughter. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king's anger; he persevered because he saw him who is invisible. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28By faith he kept the Passover and the application of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to do so, they were drowned. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the army had marched around them for seven days. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah, about David and Samuel and the prophets, |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions, |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword; whose weakness was turned to strength; and who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35Women received back their dead, raised to life again. There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36Some faced jeers and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37They were put to death by stoning; they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated-- |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves and in holes in the ground. |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised, |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect. |
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