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2 for in this the elders were testified to.
3 By faith we are apprehending the eons to adjust to a declaration of God, so that what is being observed has not come out of what is appearing."
4 By faith Abel offers to God more of a sacrifice than Cain, through which he was testified to that he is just at God's testifying to his approach presents, and through it, dying, he is still speaking."
5 By faith Enoch was transferred, so as not to be acquainted with death, and was not found, because God transfers him. For before his transference he is attested to have pleased God well."
6 Now apart from faith it is impossible to be well pleasing, for he who is coming to God must believe that He is, and is becoming a Rewarder of those who are seeking Him out."
7 By faith Noah, being apprized concerning that which is not as yet being observed, being pious, constructs an ark for the salvation of his house, through which he condemns the world, and became an enjoyer of the allotment of the righteousness which accords with faith."
8 By faith Abraham, being called, obeys, coming out into the place which he was about to obtain to enjoy as an allotment, and came out, not versed in where he is coming."
9 By faith he sojourns in the land of promise as in an alien land, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the joint enjoyers of the allotment of the same promise. "
10 For he waited for the city having foundations, whose Artificer and Architect is God. "
11 By faith Sarah herself also obtained power for the disruption of seed, and brought forth beyond the period of her prime, since she deems the Promiser faithful;"
12 wherefore, also, were begotten by one, and these of one who is deadened, according as the constellations of heaven in multitude, and as the sand beside the sea shore innumerable."
13 In faith died all these, not being requited with the promises, but perceiving them ahead and saluting them, and avowing that they are strangers and expatriates on the earth. "
14 For those who are saying such things are disclosing that they are seeking for a country of their own.
15 And, if, indeed, they remembered that from which they came out, they might have had occasion to go back."
16 Yet now they are craving a better, that is, a celestial; wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be invoked as their God, for He makes ready for them a city."
17 By faith Abraham, when undergoing trial, has offered Isaac, and he who receives the promises offered the only-begotten,
18 he to whom it was spoken that "In Isaac shall your seed be called,
19 reckoning that God is able to be rousing him from among the dead also; whence he recovers him in a parable also.
20 By faith Isaac blesses Jacob and Esau concerning that which is impending also.
21 By faith Jacob, when dying, blesses each of the sons of Joseph, and worships, leaning on the top of his staff."
22 By faith Joseph, at his decease, remembers concerning the exodus of the sons of Israel, and gives directions concerning his bones."
23 By faith Moses, being born, was hid three months by his fathers, because they perceived that the little boy was handsome, and they were not afraid of the mandate or the king."
24 By faith Moses, becoming great, disowns the term "son of Pharaoh's daughter,
25 preferring rather to be maltreated with the people of God than to have a temporary enjoyment of sin,
26 deeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, for he looked away to the reward."
27 By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the fury of the king, for he is staunch as seeing the Invisible."
28 By faith he has the passover made and the pouring of blood against the door jambs, lest the exterminator of the first-born may come into contact with them."
29 By faith they crossed the Red Sea as through dry land, attempting which, the Egyptians were swallowed up."
30 By faith the walls of Jericho fall, being surrounded on seven days."
31 By faith Rahab, the prostitute, perished not with the stubborn, receiving the spies with peace."
32 And what still may I be saying? For the time will be lacking for me to relate concerning Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, besides Samuel also, and the prophets,
33 who, through faith, subdue kingdoms, work righteousness, happened on promises, bar the mouths of lions,
34 quench the power of fire, fled from the edge of the sword, were invigorated from infirmity, became strong in battle, rout the camps of aliens,
35 women obtained their dead by resurrection. Now others are flogged, not anticipating deliverance, that they may be happening upon a better resurrection."
36 Yet others got a trial of scoffings and scourgings, yet still more of bonds and jail."
37 They are stoned, they are sawn, they are tried, they died, murdered by the sword; they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, in want, afflicted, maltreated"
38 (of whom the world was not worthy), straying in wildernesses and mountains and caves and the holes of the earth."
39 And these all, being testified to through faith, are not requited with the promise of God concerning us"
40 (the looking forward is to something better), that, apart from us, they may not be perfected."