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Hebrews 11 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:1 - And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:2 - for in this were the elders testified of;
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:3 - by faith we understand the ages to have been prepared by a saying of God, in regard to the things seen not having come out of things appearing;
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:4 - by faith a better sacrifice did Abel offer to God than Cain, through which he was testified to be righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and through it, he being dead, doth yet speak.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:5 - By faith Enoch was translated -- not to see death, and was not found, because God did translate him; for before his translation he had been testified to -- that he had pleased God well,
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:6 - and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:7 - By faith Noah, having been divinely warned concerning the things not yet seen, having feared, did prepare an ark to the salvation of his house, through which he did condemn the world, and of the righteousness according to faith he became heir.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:8 - By faith Abraham, being called, did obey, to go forth to the place that he was about to receive for an inheritance, and he went forth, not knowing whither he doth go;
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:9 - by faith he did sojourn in the land of the promise as a strange country, in tabernacles having dwelt with Isaac and Jacob, fellow-heirs of the same promise,
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:10 - for he was looking for the city having the foundations, whose artificer and constructor is God.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:11 - By faith also Sarah herself did receive power to conceive seed, and she bare after the time of life, seeing she did judge Him faithful who did promise;
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:12 - wherefore, also from one were begotten -- and that of one who had become dead -- as the stars of the heaven in multitude, and as sand that is by the sea-shore -- the innumerable.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:13 - In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted them, and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth,
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:14 - for those saying such things make manifest that they seek a country;
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:15 - and if, indeed, they had been mindful of that from which they came forth, they might have had an opportunity to return,
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:16 - but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:17 - By faith Abraham hath offered up Isaac, being tried, and the only begotten he did offer up who did receive the promises,
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:18 - of whom it was said -- 'In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;'
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:19 - reckoning that even out of the dead God is able to raise up, whence also in a figure he did receive him.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:20 - By faith, concerning coming things, Isaac did bless Jacob and Esau;
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:21 - by faith Jacob dying -- each of the sons of Joseph did bless, and did bow down upon the top of his staff;
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:22 - by faith, Joseph dying, concerning the outgoing of the sons of Israel did make mention, and concerning his bones did give command.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:23 - By faith Moses, having been born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child comely, and were not afraid of the decree of the king;
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:24 - by faith Moses, having become great, did refuse to be called a son of the daughter of Pharaoh,
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:25 - having chosen rather to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have sin's pleasure for a season,
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:26 - greater wealth having reckoned the reproach of the Christ than the treasures in Egypt, for he did look to the recompense of reward;
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:27 - by faith he left Egypt behind, not having been afraid of the wrath of the king, for, as seeing the Invisible One -- he endured;
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:28 - by faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that He who is destroying the first-born might not touch them.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:29 - By faith they did pass through the Red Sea as through dry land, which the Egyptians having received a trial of, were swallowed up;
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:30 - by faith the walls of Jericho did fall, having been surrounded for seven days;
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:31 - by faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with those who disbelieved, having received the spies with peace.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:32 - And what shall I yet say? for the time will fail me recounting about Gideon, Barak also, and Samson, and Jephthah, David also, and Samuel, and the prophets,
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:33 - who through faith did subdue kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped mouths of lions,
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:34 - quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouth of the sword, were made powerful out of infirmities, became strong in battle, caused to give way camps of the aliens.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:35 - Women received by a rising again their dead, and others were tortured, not accepting the redemption, that a better rising again they might receive,
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:36 - and others of mockings and scourgings did receive trial, and yet of bonds and imprisonment;
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:37 - they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tried; in the killing of the sword they died; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins -- being destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated,
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:38 - of whom the world was not worthy; in deserts wandering, and in mountains, and in caves, and in the holes of the earth;
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:39 - and these all, having been testified to through the faith, did not receive the promise,
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:40 - God for us something better having provided, that apart from us they might not be made perfect.
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