Hebrews 11:8–19

⁸By faith Abraham, being called, did obey, to go forth to the place that he was about to receive for an inheritance, and he went forth, not knowing whither he doth go; ⁹by faith he did sojourn in the land of the promise as a strange country, in tabernacles having dwelt with Isaac and Jacob, fellow-heirs of the same promise, ¹⁰for he was looking for the city having the foundations, whose artificer and constructor is God. ¹¹By faith also Sarah herself did receive power to conceive seed, and she bare after the time of life, seeing she did judge Him faithful who did promise; ¹²wherefore, also from one were begotten—and that of one who had become dead—as the stars of the heaven in multitude, and as sand that is by the sea-shore—the innumerable. ¹³In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted them, and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth, ¹⁴for those saying such things make manifest that they seek a country; ¹⁵and if, indeed, they had been mindful of that from which they came forth, they might have had an opportunity to return, ¹⁶but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city. ¹⁷By faith Abraham hath offered up Isaac, being tried, and the only begotten he did offer up who did receive the promises, ¹⁸of whom it was said—‘In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;’ ¹⁹reckoning that even out of the dead God is able to raise up, whence also in a figure he did receive him.