Hebrews 10:36–11:8

36 For you have need of aendurance, so that when you have bdone the will of God, you may creceive 1what was promised.

37 aFor yet in a very little while,

bHe who is coming will come, and will not delay.

38 aBut My righteous one shall live by faith;

And if he shrinks back, My soul has no pleasure in him.

39 But 1we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the 2preserving of the soul.

Chapter 11

The Triumphs of Faith

1 Now faith is the 1aassurance of things 2bhoped for, the 3conviction of cthings not seen.

2 For by it the amen of old 1bgained approval.

3 By faith we understand that the 1aworlds were prepared bby the word of God, so that what is seen cwas not made out of things which are visible.

4 By faith aAbel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he bobtained the testimony that he was righteous, God testifying 1about his cgifts, and through 2faith, though dhe is dead, he still speaks.

5 By faith aEnoch was taken up so that he would not bsee death; and he was not found because God took him up; for he obtained the witness that before his being taken up he was pleasing to God.

6 And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who acomes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.

7 By faith aNoah, being bwarned by God about cthings not yet seen, 1din reverence eprepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of fthe righteousness which is according to faith.

8 By faith aAbraham, when he was called, obeyed 1by going out to a place which he was to breceive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going.