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Hebrews
May 28, 2009 10:42:15 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on May 28, 2009 10:42:15 GMT -5
To the Hebrews 1: 1-4: God Has Spoken by His Son
1 Many years ago and in many ways God always spoke to the fathers by the prophets 2 and in these last days he spoke to us by a son, whom he set as the heir of all things, through whom he also made the ages: 3 who is the radiance of his glory and the full expression of his being, and bore all things with a word of his power, making a purification for sinners and sat at the right of the greatness in the highest, 4 himself becoming greater than the angels, much superior to them because he inherited a name.
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Hebrews
May 30, 2009 16:26:59 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on May 30, 2009 16:26:59 GMT -5
To the Hebrews 1: 5-14: The Son Superior to Angels
5 For when did he ever say to any of the angels,
You are my son, I have begotten you today?
and again,
I will be a father to him, and he will be a son to me?
6 And again, when he comes as firstborn into the world, it says,
And let all God’s angels worship him.
7 And about the angels it says,
He makes spirits his messengers* and flames of fire his servants,
8 But about the son,
God is your throne forever and ever, and the scepter** of your kingdom is the staff** of righteousness.
9 You loved righteousness and hated lawlessness: therefore God, your God, anointed you with the oil of joy beside your companions.
10 And,
You, from the beginning, lord, established the earth. and the heavens are the works of your hands: 11 they will be destroyed, but you will remain, and all will wear out like a garment, 12 and like a cloak you will roll them up, like a garment and they will be exchanged: and you are the one who is and your years will not end.
13 And did he ever say to any of the angels,
Sit at my right, until I set your enemies as a footstool for your feet?
14 Aren’t all of them ministering spirits for the service of announcing the coming inheritance of salvation?
*Same word as ‘angels’ **These are the same word
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Post by Child of Immanuel on Jun 1, 2009 8:01:45 GMT -5
Hebrews 2: 1-4: The Great Salvation
1 Therefore all the more we should hold fast to what we heard, let us never drift away. 2 For if the word spoken through angels was reliable and each violation and disobedience received deserved punishment, 3 how we should flee such a great refusal of salvation, which was received at the beginning having been spoken through the lord by those hearing him, made firm for us, 4 since God bore witness to it with signs and wonders and all kinds of power and the distribution of the holy spirit according to his will?
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Post by Child of Immanuel on Jun 7, 2009 7:36:24 GMT -5
To the Hebrews 2: 5-18: The Pioneer of Salvation
5 For this world to come of which we speak was not subjected to angels. 6 But somewhere someone bore witness saying,
What is man that you remember him, the son of man that you care for him? 7 You made him a little lower than the angels, you crowned him with glory and honor. 8 you subjected everything under his feet.
For when he subjected everything [to him] he didn’t leave anything not subjected to him. And now when we see everything subjected to him: 9 and we see Yeshua made a little lower than the angels, crowned with glory and honor through his death, so that by God’s grace he tasted death for everyone.
10 For it was fitting for him, through whom is everything and for whom is everything, leading many sons to glory, the pioneer of their salvation, to be perfected through suffering. 11 For he who makes holy and those being made holy are all from one: for which reason he is not ashamed to call them brothers 12 saying,
I will announce your name to my brothers, in the midst of the community I will sing your praises.
13 And again,
I will be confident in him,
and again,
Look, I and the children whom God gave me.
14 Therefore when the children have befouled themselves with blood and flesh, and he likewise shared them, so that through his death he might destroy him who has power over death, that is the devil, 15 and set free those who were enslaved to fear of death through all of the living one. 16 For, of course, he did not take the nature of angels but of the seed of Abraham. 17 Therefore he ought to be compared to the brothers by all means, so that he may be a merciful and faithful high priest with God in order to take away the sins of the nation. 18 For in that he suffered for those who are tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
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Post by Child of Immanuel on Jun 8, 2009 6:56:10 GMT -5
To the Hebrews 3: 1-6: Jesus Superior to Moses
1 Therefore, holy brothers, sharers in the heavenly inheritance, consider the emissary and high priest of our confession, Yeshua, 2 who was faithful to him who made him as also Moses was to [all] his house. 3 He deserves more glory than Moses, he who prepared him has more glory over the house: 4 for each house is prepared by someone, but God prepared everything. 5 And Moses was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a witness which is spoken of, 6 but the Messiah is over his house as a son, whose house we are, if [only] we hold fast to boldness and to boasting in hope.
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Hebrews
Jun 25, 2009 14:42:29 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Jun 25, 2009 14:42:29 GMT -5
To the Hebrews 3: 7-4: 13: A Rest for the People of God
7 Therefore, just as the holy spirit says,
Today if you hear my voice, 8 do not harden your heart as in the rebellion on the day of testing in the wilderness, 9 when your fathers were tested in a trial and saw my deeds 10 for forty years therefore I grew angry with that generation and said, ‘Oh wandering hearts, and those who don’t know my ways.’ 11 So I swore in my wrath: ‘They won’t enter my rest.’
12 Watch, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of faithlessness to deny the living God, 13 but encourage each other each day, as long as it is called Today, lest any of you be hardened in the deception of sin—14 for we have become sharers in Messiah, if only we hold fast to the firm beginning of obedience until the end—15 as it is said,
Today if you hear my voice, Don’t harden your heart as in the temptation.
16 For weren’t some who heard tempted? But not all who left Egypt were through Moses? 17 And whom did he watch for forty years? Wasn’t it the sinners, who fell like corpses in the desert? 18 And to whom did he say, they would not enter his rest, if not to the disobedient? 19 And we see that they could not enter because of lack of trust.
1 Therefore let us be afraid, lest any of you, being left out of the promise, fail to enter his rest. 2 For we are also telling the good news just like them: but the word of hearing does not benefit those who are not united in trust with those who hear. 3 For we who trust have entered [the] rest, as he said,
As I swore in my wrath, If they enter my rest,
and they are of the deeds that have been done since the beginning of the world. 4 For he spoke, sometime, about that week thus, And God rested on the seventh day from all his works. 5 And in this again, If they enter my rest. 6 Since it is certain that some will enter it, and the earlier ones who heard the good news did not enter through lack of trust, 7 again he swore on that day, Today, speaking by David about this time, as it is written in advance,
Today if you hear my voice, do not harden your hearts.
8 For if Yeshua gave them rest, he did not speak about another day, this one. 9 Therefore there remains a Sabbath rest for God’s people. 10 For he entered his rest and rested from his works just as God rested from his own works. 11 So let us strive to enter that rest, lest anyone fall in his pattern of unbelief.
12 For God’s word is living and active and cutting more than any double-edged sword and penetrating even to the division of soul and spirit, joints and marrow, and judging the thoughts and intentions of the heart: 13 and there is not a creation that is hidden before it, but everything is naked and exposed to its eyes, before whom is the word for us.
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Hebrews
Jun 26, 2009 18:43:51 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Jun 26, 2009 18:43:51 GMT -5
Hebrews 4: 14-5: 10: Jesus the Great High Priest
14 Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone into heaven, Yeshua the son of God, let us hold fast to the confession. 15 For we don’t have a high priest who can’t sympathize with our weaknesses, but he was tempted in everything according to the likeness (of man) without sin. 16 Therefore let us approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace for timely help.
1 For each high priest received from man is cleansed by man for the things of God, so that he may bear gifts and sacrifices for sins, 2 for the powerful one to be gentle to the ignorant and deceived, and therefore he is subject to weakness 3 and because of that he must, as for the nation, so also for himself, make atonement for sins. 4 And not for himself does someone receive honor but rather is called by God just like Aaron.
5 And thus the Messiah did not glorify himself to become high priest but rather the one who said to him,
You are my son, I have begotten you today:
6 and just as it says in another (place),
You are a priest forever according to the kind of Melchisedek,
7 in the days of his flesh he prayed and asked the mighty one to save him from death with loud cries and tears that came and were heard out of reverence, 8 although he is the son, he learned obedience from what he suffered, 9 and being made perfect by all his obedience became the source of eternal salvation, 10 designated by God a high priest according to the kind of Melchisedek.
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Hebrews
Jun 29, 2009 7:46:19 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Jun 29, 2009 7:46:19 GMT -5
To the Hebrews 5: 11-6: 12: Warning against Apostasy
11 About this the word is great and hard to understand, therefore you have become hard of hearing. 12 For when you should also be teachers at this time, you need someone to teach you again the basics of the beginning of God’s word and you have become needy of milk, not solid food. 13 For everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness, for he is immature: 14 and solid food is for the mature, those who through having the power of discernment laid bare have judgment of good and evil. 1 Therefore, leaving the word of the beginning of Messiah, being brought to the end, let us not lay again again the foundation of repentance from dead works and trust in God, 2 baptism, the teaching, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead and the eternal judgment. 3 And we will do this, if God permits.
4 For it is impossible for those who were once illuminated, and tasted the heavenly gift and became sharers in the holy spirit 5 and tasted the good word of God with miracles of the coming age 6 and fell away, to be renewed again in repentance, since they crucify again in themselves the son of God and expose him to public ridicule. 7 For the earth that drinks the rain that comes on it again and yields a useful crop to them through which it also grows, it receives praise from God: 8 but if brings out thorns and thistles, it is corrupted and nearly cursed, whose end is in fire.
9 And we are convinced about you, brothers, of the greater things, and the coming salvation, and thus we speak. 10 For God is not unjust and does not overlook among your work and the love that you show for his name, serving the holy ones and still serving them. 11 And we long for each of you to show the same assurance of hope until the end, 12 so that you won’t become lazy, but imitators of the heirs of the promise through trust and patience.
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Post by Child of Immanuel on Jul 2, 2009 8:14:56 GMT -5
To the Hebrews 6: 13-20: God’s Sure Promise
13 For God promised to Abraham, since he had no one greater to swear by, he swore by himself 14 saying, “Indeed I will bless you and make your numbers great:” 15 and thus being patient he received the promise. 16 For men swear by someone who is greater, and the oath of all their rebellion is confirmed: 17 by which God, wanting to show even more to the heirs his unchangeable promise of his plan, swore an oath, 18 so that through two unchangeable acts, in which God cannot lie, we who flee holding fast to the foretold hope have a strong helper: 19 which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, sure and steadfast and coming inside the curtain, 20 where Yeshua entered as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest according to the kind of Melchisedek forever.
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Hebrews
Aug 23, 2009 23:24:26 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Aug 23, 2009 23:24:26 GMT -5
To the Hebrews 7: 1-28: The Priestly Order of Melchizedek
1 For this Melchisedek, king of Salem, priest of God most high, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, 2 and to him Abraham measured a tenth of everything, for first he is called the king of righteousness and then he is also king of Salem, which is king of peace, 3 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither a beginning of his days nor an end of his life, and he is like the son of God, he remains priest for all time.
4 Just think how great he is, [since] Abraham gave him a tenth of the patriarch’s spoils. 5 And indeed those of Levi’s sons who received the holy service have a command to receive a tenth from the people according to the law, that is, from their brothers, since they came from Abraham’s loins: 6 but he who has no genealogy from them Abraham has given, and he blessed the one who has the promise. 7 And apart from all dispute the inferior one is blessed by the greater one. 8 And here indeed men who die receive tithes, and there it bears witness that he lives. 9 And, so to speak, through Abraham even Levi who receives tithes gives them: 10 for he was still in the loins of his father when Melchisedek met him.
11 So if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood, for the people was given the law based on it, what need is there yet for another priest of the kind of Melchisedek to arise and not named after the kind of Aaron? 12 For the priesthood is changed, there must be a change in law. 13 For these things were said about him, he has authority over a different tribe, from which no one officiates over the sacrifice: 14 for our lord rose as a forerunner from Judah, about which tribe Moses said nothing about priests. 15 And all the more it is still very evident, that another priest arose in the likeness of Melchisedek, 16 he didn’t become one according to the fleshly promise of the law but rather according to the power of an indestructible life. 17 For it is testified that
You are a priest forever according to the kind of Melchisedek.
18 For indeed the former commandment has been nullified because of its weakness and uselessness—19 for the law made no one perfect—and the bringing in of a greater hope through which we draw near to God.
20 And it was not without an oath: for those who have become priests do not take oaths, 21 and he took an oath through the one who said to him,
The lord swore and it will not be reneged, You are a priest forever.
22 About such a greater covenant Yeshua came near as a priest. 23 And many others were priests, prevented from continuing in office because they died: 24 and through his remaining forever he has a permanent priesthood: 25 for which reason he is also able to save completely those who come through him to God, always living to plead for them.
26 For it is fitting that he is also our high priest, holy, innocent, pure, separated from sinners and higher than the heavens, 27 who does not have the daily necessity, like the chief priests, of bringing sacrifices for his own sins first before those of the people: for he did this once for all for himself. 28 For the law appoints humans, high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath-making which is later than the law has been perfected forever.
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Hebrews
Aug 23, 2009 23:30:55 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Aug 23, 2009 23:30:55 GMT -5
To the Hebrews 8: 1-13: The High Priest of a New and Better Covenant
1 And the point of what has been said, we have such a high priest, who sits at the right of the throne of the power in the heavens, 2 a servant in the holy places and a true dwelling-place, which the lord, not man, set up. 3 For each high priest is appointed to bring gifts and sacrifices: for which reason he needs to bring them himself also. 4 Therefore indeed if he was on the earth, he would be no priest, if priests bring gifts according to the law: 5 they worship an example and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses has directed when they were about to finish the tabernacle, for it was said, ‘See, you will make everything according to the type that was shown to you on the mountain:’ 6 but now worship has become far superior, and as great as the confirmed covenant is, which bas been given as law for greater promises.
7 For if that first one had been faultless, there would have been found no place for the second. 8 For he found fault with them and said,
Behold days are coming, says the lord, and I will make a covenant with the house of Israel and a new covenant with the house of Judah, 9 not like the covenant, which I made with their fathers in the day when I stretched out my hand to them to lead them out of the land of Egypt, that they didn’t stay in my covenant, and I grew angry with them, says the lord: 10 for this is the covenant, which I will make with the house of Israel in those days, says the lord: giving my laws to their understanding and I will write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they will be my people: 11 and none of them will teach his neighbor and none of them will teach his brother saying, Know the lord, for everyone will know me from the least of them to the greatest, 12 because I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and I will no longer remember their sins.
13 When he called it ‘New’ he made the first one old: and something that is growing old and wearing out is near to disappearance.
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Hebrews
Aug 23, 2009 23:36:53 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Aug 23, 2009 23:36:53 GMT -5
To the Hebrews 9: 1-22: The Earthly and the Heavenly Sanctuaries
1 Therefore indeed [also] the first one had regulations for worship and manmade holiness. 2 For the first space, which is called Holy, was equipped with the lights and the table and the showing of the bread: 3 but behind the curtain is the second space called the Holy of Holies, 4 having the golden altar and the ark of the covenant all covered with gold, on which there is a golden jar which has the manna and Aaron’s staff that budded and the tablets of the covenant, 5 and above this are the glorious Cherubim overshadowing the sacrifice: about which there isn’t time to say even a portion now.
6 And thus being prepared all of which the priests come through the first tent to complete sacrifices, 7 but into the second tent the high priest goes only once a year, not without blood which he brings for himself and for the unintentional sins of the people, 8 this indicates the holy spirit had not yet shown the way to the holy places, as long as the first tent stands, 9 which is a parable of the present age, in which gifts and sacrifices are brought that cannot perfect the worshiper from conscience, 10 only about foods and drinks and different washings, regulations for the flesh, not remaining for the time of reformation.
11 But Messiah became high priest of the good things through the better and perfected tent not made by hands, that is, not of this creation, 12 who went once for all into the Holy not through the blood of goats and calves, finding an eternal cleansing. 13 For if the blood of goats and calves and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are unclean makes them holy with a fleshly cleanness, 14 how much more does the blood of Messiah, which he himself pours out through the eternal spirit faultless before God, cleanse our conscience from dead works to worship the living God.
15 And for this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, when death came for destruction of those in the first covenant founded on the promise those who have been called to the eternal inheritance received. 16 For where there is a will*, necessity brings death to the one who makes it: 17 for a will is binding on the dead, then it has no force when the one who makes it is alive. 18 Therefore the first was not put into effect without blood: 19 for every commandment spoken in the law by Moses to all the people, taking the blood of calves [and goats] with water and scarlet wool and hyssop and it the scroll and sprinkled all the people 20 saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which God made with you.” 21 And likewise he sprinkled the tent and all the vessels of worship with blood. 22 And almost everything is cleansed with blood according to the law and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
*Same as the word for ‘covenant’
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Hebrews
Aug 23, 2009 23:45:29 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Aug 23, 2009 23:45:29 GMT -5
To the Hebrews 9: 23-10: 18: Sin Put Away by Christ’s Sacrifice
23 Therefore the copies of the things in these heavens need to be cleansed with these rites, and these heavenly things with better sacrifices than these. 24 For Messiah didn’t go into a holy place made by hands, a copy of the true things, but into heaven itself, now in the presence of God’s face for us: 25 not to offer himself many times, as the high priest goes into the holy place every year with the blood of another, 26 since he would have to suffer many times from the foundation of the word: but now once at the ending of the ages he was shown for the removal of sin through his sacrifice. 27 And just as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this is judgment, 28 so also the Messiah once being carried into the many to take away sins, a second time without sin he will be shown to those waiting for him for salvation.
1 For the law has a shadow of the good things to come, not the image of deeds itself, yearly offering the same sacrifices in perpetuity never able to perfect those offering them: 2 so they wouldn't they have stopped offering them because the worshipers had a conscienceness of sins having been cleansed once? 3 But in them is a yearly reminder of sins: 4 for the blood of bulls and goats is powerless to take away sins.
5 Therefore coming into the world he says,
I didn’t want sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me: 6 and with whole burnt offerings for sin you aren’t pleased. 7 Then I said, Look, I’m here, in the scroll of a book it is written about me, to do your will, God.
8 Saying above that You didn’t will and aren’t pleased with sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and those for sin, which are offered according to the law, 9 then he said, Look, I’m here to do your will. He annuls the first so that the second may stand, 10 in which will we are made holy though the offering of Yeshua the Messiah’s body once for all.
11 And indeed every priest has stood day by day worshiping and often bringing sacrifice, which can never take away sins, 12 but he cleansed with one sacrifice brought for sins so that he sat at the right of God, 13 the rest is shown until his enemies are placed as a footstool for his feet. 14 For with one offering he has perfected those who brought it, making them holy.
15 And the holy spirit also bears witness for us: for when it was said,
16 This is the covenant which I will make with them in those days, says the lord: I will put my laws on their hearts and I will write them on their understanding, 17 and their sins and their lawlessness I will never again remember.
18 And where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer an offering for sin.
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Hebrews
Aug 23, 2009 23:52:33 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Aug 23, 2009 23:52:33 GMT -5
To the Hebrews 10: 19-39: Exhortation and Warning
19 Therefore we have, brothers, an entrance into the inside of the holy places through the blood of Yeshua, 20 which way, a new and living way, he inaugurated for us through the curtain, that is, his body, 21 and a great priesthood in God’s house, 22 let us approach with a true heart in the certainty of trust, having the heart sprinkled from an evil conscience and the body washed with clean water; 23 let us grasp the confession of hope without wavering, for the one who promises is trustworthy, 24 and let us consider how to stir up each other into encouragement to love and good deeds, 25 not neglecting to meet with each other, as is a habit with some, but encouraging, and all that more as much as you see the day approaching.
26 For willingly when we sin after receiving the knowledge of truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but the fearful expectation of judgment and jealous fire about to consume enemies. 28 Someone nullifies the law of Moses apart from compassion on two or three witnesses he dies: 29 how much worse is it to deserve punishment trampling on the son of God and profaning the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified and insulting the spirit of grace?
30 For we know the one who said,
Vengeance is mine, I will repay.
And again,
The lord will judge his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 And remember the former days, in which after you were enlightened you had much struggle and you were patient through suffering, 33 indeed were put to public shame with reproach and trouble, and were also sharers with those who live in that way. 34 For you also shared the sufferings of the masters and welcomed the seizure of their possessions with joy knowing that they have greater and remaining possessions. 35 Therefore do not throw off your coming, which has a great reward. 36 For you need patience to do the will of God and receive the promise.
37 For there is still a little time, the one coming is near and won’t delay. 38 And my righteous one will live by trust, and if he draws back, my soul won’t be pleased with him.
39 But we are not those who draw back to destruction but rather who trust to preserve their souls.
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Hebrews
Sept 1, 2009 11:12:11 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Sept 1, 2009 11:12:11 GMT -5
To the Hebrews 11: 1-40: Faith
1 And trust is confidence of what is hoped, the substance of deeds that are not seen. 2 For by it the people of old were rewarded.
3 We know by trust that the ages were created by God’s word, so that what is seen was not made out of visible things.
4 By trust Abel brought a better sacrifice than Cain, for which he is testified to be righteous, being testified to by his gifts to God, and through them he still speaks, though he is dead.
5 By trust Enoch was taken up and did not see death, and he didn’t die for God took him. For his removal is a testimony to that he pleased God: 6 and apart from trust one cannot please him: for one must trust God’s coming one, that he is and that he rewards those who seek him.
7 By trust Noah, having been warned of things that were not yet seen and moved by fear, built an ark for his house’s salvation, through which the world was condemned, and it became an inheritance according to trust of righteousness.
8 By trust Abraham being called obeyed to go to a place which he would receive as an inheritance, and he went out not having a place to go to.
9 By trust he passed by the land of the promise as belonging to another, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of that promise: 10 for they received the city that has foundations, whose builder and ruler is God.
11 By trust Sarah herself, a barren woman, received power to conceive seed and according to the right time, thus she had a faithful maker of promises. 12 Therefore from one man as good as dead were born descendants in number like the stars of heaven and like the unnumbered sands of the shore of the sea.
13 By trust all of them died, not receiving the promise but rather seeing it from a distance and welcoming and confessing that they were strangers and temporary residents on the earth. 14 For speaking they reported that they sought a fatherland. 15 And if they made mention of that from which they left, they had a time to return: 16 but now they desire a greater one, which is from heaven. Therefore God will not be ashamed to be called their God: for he has prepared a city for them.
17 By trust Abraham brought Isaac, being tested, and offered his only child, who received the promise, 18 about whom it was said that 'In Isaac your seed will be called,' 19 saying that God is powerful even to raise the dead, then he would even receive back him who was lost.
20 By trust Isaac also put future blessings on Jacob and Esau.
21 By trust Jacob, when when he was dying, blessed each one of Joseph's sons and leaned on the head of his staff.
22 By trust Joseph, completing the exodus of the sons of Israel, remembered and commanded concerning his bones.
23 By trust Moses was hidden after he was born, at three months, by his parents, for they saw that the child was beautiful and didn’t fear the king’s decree.
24 By trust Moses, when he was older, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, 25 preferring rather to endure evil with God’s people than for a short time to have the enjoyment of sin, 26 considering reproach for Messiah’s sake better wealth than the treasures of Egypt: for he looked forward to the reward.
27 By trust he left Egypt not fearing the king’s rage: for he endured it as seeing the invisible one.
28 By trust he did the sacrifice and the sprinkling of blood, lest the destroyer destroy the firstborn with his touch.
29 By trust he made the Red Sea as dry land, and the Egyptians tried to do the same and drowned.
30 By trust he felled the wall of Jericho marching around it for seven days.
31 By trust Rahab the prostitute did not perish with the disobedient for she welcomed the spies in peace.
32 And what more shall I say? For there isn’t time to talk about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephtha, David, and also Samuel and the prophets, 33 who through trust conquered kingdoms, did righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 34 quenched the power of fire, fled the mouth of the sword, were clothed from weakness, were made powerful in war, put other armies to flight. 35 Women received their dead in resurrection: and others were tortured not accepting releasae, so that they might have a better resurrection: 36 and others suffered public ridicule and whippings, and even chains and prison: 37 they were stoned, they were sawn in two, they died by the edge of the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, needy, oppressed, ill-treated, 38 the world was not worthy of them, wandering in deserts and on mountains and caves and the deserted places of the earth.
39 And all of these, though rewarded for their trust, did not attain the promise, 40 when God foresaw something better concerning us, that they not be perfected apart from us.
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