Hebrews 11:8–19

⁸By faith Abraham, when he^* was called, obeyed to go out to a place that he was going to receive for an inheritance, and he went out, not knowing where he was going. ⁹By faith he lived in the land of promise as a stranger, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the fellow heirs of the same promise. ¹⁰For he was expecting the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God. ¹¹By faith also, with Sarah^c,^d he received the ability to procreate^e even past the normal age^f, because he regarded the one who had promised to be faithful. ¹²And therefore these were fathered from one man, and he being as good as dead, as the stars of heaven in number and like the innumerable sand by the shore of the sea.

¹³These all died in faith without receiving the promises, but seeing them from a distance and welcoming them, and admitting that they were strangers and temporary residents on the earth. ¹⁴For those who say such things make clear that they are seeking a homeland. ¹⁵And if they remember^g that land from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return. ¹⁶But now they aspire to a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.

¹⁷By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered Isaac, and the one who received the promises was ready to offer his one and only son, ¹⁸with reference to whom it was said, “In Isaac your descendants will be named,”^{h 19}having reasoned that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which he received him back also as a symbol.