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1 Peter 2

2017年7月28日 by Leave a Comment
  • 2:1 Why laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, all evil speakings,
  • 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that you may grow thereby:
  • 2:3 If so be you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
  • 2:4 To whom coming, as to a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
  • 2:5 You also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
  • 2:6 Why also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believes on him shall not be confounded.
  • 2:7 To you therefore which believe he is precious: but to them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
  • 2:8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
  • 2:9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light;
  • 2:10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
  • 2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
  • 2:12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
  • 2:13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
  • 2:14 Or to governors, as to them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
  • 2:15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
  • 2:16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
  • 2:17 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
  • 2:18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the fraudulent.
  • 2:19 For this is thank worthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
  • 2:20 For what glory is it, if, when you be buffeted for your faults, you shall take it patiently? but if, when you do well, and suffer for it, you take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
  • 2:21 For even hereunto were you called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow his steps:
  • 2:22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
  • 2:23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judges righteously:
  • 2:24 Who his own self bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live to righteousness: by whose stripes you were healed.
  • 2:25 For you were as sheep going astray; but are now returned to the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
Filed Under: 1 Peter

1 Peter 1

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  • 1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
  • 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace, be multiplied.
  • 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again to a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
  • 1:4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved in heaven for you,
  • 1:5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith to salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
  • 1:6 Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, you are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
  • 1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found to praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
  • 1:8 Whom having not seen, you love; in whom, though now you see him not, yet believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
  • 1:9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
  • 1:10 Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come to you:
  • 1:11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
  • 1:12 To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they did minister the things, which are now reported to you by them that have preached the gospel to you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
  • 1:13 Why gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
  • 1:14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
  • 1:15 But as he which has called you is holy, so be you holy in all manner of conversation;
  • 1:16 Because it is written, Be you holy; for I am holy.
  • 1:17 And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
  • 1:18 For as much as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
  • 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
  • 1:20 Who truly was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
  • 1:21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
  • 1:22 Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit to unfeigned love of the brothers, see that you love one another with a pure heart fervently:
  • 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and stays for ever.
  • 1:24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass wither, and the flower thereof falls away:
  • 1:25 But the word of the Lord endures for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached to you.
Filed Under: 1 Peter

James 5

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  • 5:1 Go to now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come on you.
  • 5:2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
  • 5:3 Your gold and silver is corroded; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. You have heaped treasure together for the last days.
  • 5:4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, cries: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
  • 5:5 You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; you have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
  • 5:6 You have condemned and killed the just; and he does not resist you.
  • 5:7 Be patient therefore, brothers, to the coming of the Lord.  Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
  • 5:8 Be you also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draws near.
  • 5:9 Grudge not one against another, brothers, lest you be condemned: behold, the judge stands before the door.
  • 5:10 Take, my brothers, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
  • 5:11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
  • 5:12 But above all things, my brothers, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yes be yes; and your no, no; lest you fall into condemnation.
  • 5:13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
  • 5:14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
  • 5:15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
  • 5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
  • 5:17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
  • 5:18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
  • 5:19 Brothers, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
  • 5:20 Let him know, that he which converts the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Filed Under: James

James 4

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  • 4:1 From where come wars and fights among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
  • 4:2 You lust, and have not: you kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: you fight and war, yet you have not, because you ask not.
  • 4:3 You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your lusts.
  • 4:4 You adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
  • 4:5 Do you think that the scripture said in vain, The spirit that dwells in us lusts to envy?
  • 4:6 But he gives more grace. Why he said, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
  • 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
  • 4:8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double minded.
  • 4:9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
  • 4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
  • 4:11 Speak not evil one of another, brothers. He that speaks evil of his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law, and judges the law: but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
  • 4:12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who are you that judge another?
  • 4:13 Go to now, you that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
  • 4:14 Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
  • 4:15 For that you ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
  • 4:16 But now you rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
  • 4:17 Therefore to him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.
Filed Under: James

James 3

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  • 3:1 My brothers, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
  • 3:2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
  • 3:3 Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
  • 3:4 Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, wherever the governor wants.
  • 3:5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things.  Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindles!
  • 3:6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
  • 3:7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed of mankind:
  • 3:8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
  • 3:9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
  • 3:10 Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not so to be.
  • 3:11 Does a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
  • 3:12 Can the fig tree, my brothers, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
  • 3:13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
  • 3:14 But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
  • 3:15 This wisdom descends not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
  • 3:16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
  • 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
  • 3:18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
Filed Under: James

James 2

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  • 2:1 My brothers, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
  • 2:2 For if there come to your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;
  • 2:3 And you have respect to him that wears the gay clothing, and say to him, Sit you here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand you there, or sit here under my footstool:
  • 2:4 Are you not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?
  • 2:5 Listen, my beloved brothers, Has not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them that love him?
  • 2:6 But you have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
  • 2:7 Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which you are called?
  • 2:8 If you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well:
  • 2:9 But if you have respect to persons, you commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
  • 2:10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
  • 2:11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if you commit no adultery, yet if you kill, you are become a transgressor of the law.
  • 2:12 So speak you, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
  • 2:13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has showed no mercy; and mercy rejoices against judgment.
  • 2:14 What does it profit, my brothers, though a man say he has faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
  • 2:15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
  • 2:16 And one of you say to them, Depart in peace, be you warmed and filled; notwithstanding you give them not those things which are needful to the body; what does it profit?
  • 2:17 Even so faith, if it has not works, is dead, being alone.
  • 2:18 Yes, a man may say, You have faith, and I have works: show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
  • 2:19 You believe that there is one God; you do well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
  • 2:20 But will you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
  • 2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son on the altar?
  • 2:22 See you how faith worked with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
  • 2:23 And the scripture was fulfilled which said, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
  • 2:24 You see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
  • 2:25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
  • 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
Filed Under: James

James 1

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  • 1:1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
  • 1:2 My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into divers temptations;
  • 1:3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith works patience.
  • 1:4 But let patience have her perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
  • 1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all men liberally, and upbraides not; and it shall be given him.
  • 1:6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
  • 1:7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
  • 1:8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
  • 1:9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
  • 1:10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
  • 1:11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it wither the grass, and the flower thereof falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
  • 1:12 Blessed is the man that endures temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them that love him.
  • 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempts he any man:
  • 1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
  • 1:15 Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.
  • 1:16 Do not err, my beloved brothers.
  • 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no ficklenss, neither shadow of turning.
  • 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
  • 1:19 Why, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
  • 1:20 For the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.
  • 1:21 Why lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
  • 1:22 But be you doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
  • 1:23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like to a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
  • 1:24 For he beholds himself, and goes his way, and straightway forgets what manner of man he was.
  • 1:25 But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
  • 1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
  • 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Filed Under: James

Hebrews 13

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  • 13:1 Let brotherly love continue.
  • 13:2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
  • 13:3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
  • 13:4 Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
  • 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as you have: for he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you.
  • 13:6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me.
  • 13:7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken to you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
  • 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
  • 13:9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
  • 13:10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
  • 13:11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
  • 13:12 Why Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
  • 13:13 Let us go forth therefore to him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
  • 13:14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
  • 13:15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
  • 13:16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
  • 13:17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
  • 13:18 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.
  • 13:19 But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
  • 13:20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
  • 13:21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
  • 13:22 And I beseech you, brothers, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter to you in few words.
  • 13:23 Know you that our brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.
  • 13:24 Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints.  They of Italy salute you.
  • 13:25 Grace be with you all. Amen.
Filed Under: Hebrews

Hebrews 12

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  • 12:1 Why seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
  • 12:2 Looking to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
  • 12:3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds.
  • 12:4 You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.
  • 12:5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to children, My son, despise not you the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked of him:
  • 12:6 For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and whips every son whom he receives.
  • 12:7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?
  • 12:8 But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.
  • 12:9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
  • 12:10 For they truly for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
  • 12:11 Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them which are exercised thereby.
  • 12:12 Why lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
  • 12:13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
  • 12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
  • 12:15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
  • 12:16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
  • 12:17 For you know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
  • 12:18 For you are not come to the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor to blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
  • 12:19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard entreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
  • 12:20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
  • 12:21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
  • 12:22 But you are come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
  • 12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
  • 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things that that of Abel.
  • 12:25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven:
  • 12:26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
  • 12:27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
  • 12:28 Why we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
  • 12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.
Filed Under: Hebrews

Hebrews 11

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  • 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
  • 11:2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.
  • 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
  • 11:4 By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaks.
  • 11:5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
  • 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
  • 11:7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
  • 11:8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing where he went.
  • 11:9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
  • 11:10 For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
  • 11:11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
  • 11:12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
  • 11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
  • 11:14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
  • 11:15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from where they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
  • 11:16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: why God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he has prepared for them a city.
  • 11:17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,
  • 11:18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall your seed be called:
  • 11:19 Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from where also he received him in a figure.
  • 11:20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
  • 11:21 By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning on the top of his staff.
  • 11:22 By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.
  • 11:23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment.
  • 11:24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter;
  • 11:25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
  • 11:26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect to the recompense of the reward.
  • 11:27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
  • 11:28 Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
  • 11:29 By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.
  • 11:30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.
  • 11:31 By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.
  • 11:32 And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:
  • 11:33 Who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions.
  • 11:34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
  • 11:35 Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
  • 11:36 And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yes, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
  • 11:37 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
  • 11:38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
  • 11:39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
  • 11:40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
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