Hebrews 11:8 Cross References - Goodspeed

⁸ Faith enabled Abraham to obey when God summoned him to leave his home for a region which he was to have for his own, and to leave home without knowing where he was going.

²⁴ "Everyone, therefore, who listens to this teaching of mine and acts upon it, will be like a sensible man who built his house on rock. ²⁵ And the rain fell, and the rivers rose, and the winds blew, and beat about that house, and it did not go down, for its foundations were on rock.

² He answered, "Brothers and fathers, listen. The glorious God appeared to our forefather Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran, ³ and he said to him, 'Leave your country and your relatives and come to the country that I will show you.' ⁴ So he left the country of the Chaldeans and went to live in Haran, and from there after the death of his father, God caused him to move into this country where you now live.

⁵ through whom we have received God's favor and been commissioned in his name to urge obedience and faith upon all the heathen,

¹⁷ But, thank God! though you were once slaves of sin, you have become obedient from your hearts to the standard of teaching that you received,

¹⁶ It is true, they have not all accepted the good news, for Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed what we have told?"

⁵ I destroy arguments and every obstacle that is raised against the knowledge of God, and I take captive every thought and make it obey Christ,

⁹ and when he was fully qualified, he became a source of unending salvation for all who obey him,

³³ who by their faith conquered kingdoms, attained uprightness, received new promises, shut the mouths of lions,

¹⁴ My brothers, what is the good of a man's saying he has faith, if he has no good deeds to show? Can faith save him? ¹⁵ If some brother or sister has no clothes and has not food enough for a day, ¹⁶ and one of you says to them, "Goodbye, keep warm and have plenty to eat," without giving them the necessaries of life, what good does it do?

²² Now that by obeying the truth you have purified your souls for sincere love of the brotherhood, you must love one another intensely and heartily,

¹ You married women, in the same way, must be submissive to your husbands, so that any who refuse to believe the message may be won over without argument through the behavior of their wives

¹⁷ For the time has come for the judgment to begin with the household of God, and if it begins with us, what will be the end of those who refuse God's good news?