Hebrews 10:32–11:6

³²Remember the earlier days when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings.^{t 33}Sometimes you were publicly exposed to taunts and afflictions, and at other times you were companions of those who were treated that way.^{u 34}For you sympathized with the prisoners^H and accepted with joy the confiscation of your possessions, because you know that you yourselves have a better and enduring possession.^{Av 35}So don’t throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.^{w 36}For you need endurance, so that after you have done God’s will, you may receive what was promised.^x

³⁷For yet in a very little while,

the Coming One will come and not delay.

³⁸But my righteous one^B will live by faith;

and if he draws back,

I have no pleasure^C in him.^Dy

³⁹But we are not those who draw back and are destroyed, but those who have faith and are saved.

LIVING BY FAITH

11Now faith is the reality^E of what is hoped for, the proof^F of what is not seen.^{z 2}For by this our ancestors were approved.

³By faith we understand that the universe was^G created by the word of God,^a so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible.^H

⁴By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was approved as a righteous man, because God approved his gifts, and even though he is dead, he still speaks through his faith.^b

⁵By faith Enoch was taken away, and so he did not experience death. He was not to be found because God took him away.^I For before he was taken away, he was approved as one who pleased God.^{c 6}Now without faith it is impossible to please God, since the one who draws near to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.