Hebrews 11:11-19

Thomson(i) 11 By faith Sarah also received strength for conception, and was delivered of a son when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore there sprang even from one, and him dead as to these things, a posterity like the stars of heaven for multitude, and like the sand on the sea shore which is innumerable. 13 These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they viewed them at a distance, and were persuaded of, and embraced them, and acknowledged that they were strangers and sojourners in the land. 14 For they who speak thus shew plainly that they are seeking their father's country: 15 Now had these been mindful of that from which they came out, they might have had an opportunity of returning thither: 16 but now they desire a better; that is a heavenly country; therefore God is not ashamed of them; to be invoked as their God: for he prepared a city for them. 17 By faith Abraham, when he was put to the trial, offered up Isaak. Though he had received the promises he offered up his only begotten son, 18 in respect to whom it had been said, that "in Isaak a seed shall be called for thee," 19 reckoning that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which in a figurative sense, he had received him.