Messianic Jews (Heb) 11
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1Trusting is being confident of what we hope for, convinced about things we do not see. 2It was for this that Scripture attested the merit of the people of old.
3By trusting, we understand that the universe was created through a spoken word of God, so that what is seen did not come into being out of existing phenomena.
4By trusting, Hevel offered a greater sacrifice than Kayin; because of this, he was attested as righteous, with God giving him this testimony on the ground of his gifts. Through having trusted, he still continues to speak, even though he is dead.
5By trusting, Hanokh was taken away from this life without seeing death — “He was not to be found, because God took him away” — for he has been attested as having been, prior to being taken away, well pleasing to God. 6And without trusting, it is impossible to be well pleasing to God, because whoever approaches him must trust that he does exist and that he becomes a Rewarder to those who seek him out.
7By trusting, Noach, after receiving divine warning about things as yet unseen, was filled with holy fear and built an ark to save his household. Through this trusting, he put the world under condemnation and received the righteousness that comes from trusting.
8By trusting, Avraham obeyed, after being called to go out to a place which God would give him as a possession; indeed, he went out without knowing where he was going. 9By trusting, he lived as a temporary resident in the Land of the promise, as if it were not his, staying in tents with Yitz’chak and Ya‘akov, who were to receive what was promised along with him. 10For he was looking forward to the city with permanent foundations, of which the architect and builder is God.
11By trusting, he received potency to father a child, even when he was past the age for it, as was Sarah herself; because he regarded the One who had made the promise as trustworthy. 12Therefore this one man, who was virtually dead, fathered descendants
as numerous as the stars in the sky,
and as countless as the grains of the sand on the seashore.
13All these people kept on trusting until they died, without receiving what had been promised. They had only seen it and welcomed it from a distance, while acknowledging that they were aliens and temporary residents on the earth. 14For people who speak this way make it clear that they are looking for a fatherland. 15Now if they were to keep recalling the one they left, they would have an opportunity to return; 16but as it is, they aspire to a better fatherland, a heavenly one. This is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
17By trusting, Avraham, when he was put to the test, offered up Yitz’chak as a sacrifice. Yes, he offered up his only son, he who had received the promises, 18to whom it had been said, “What is called your ‘seed’ will be in Yitz’chak.” 19For he had concluded that God could even raise people from the dead! And, figuratively speaking, he did so receive him.
20By trusting, Yitz’chak in his blessings over Ya‘akov and Esav made reference to events yet to come.
21By trusting, Ya‘akov, when he was dying, blessed each of Yosef’s sons, leaning on his walking-stick as he bowed in prayer.
22By trusting, Yosef, near the end of his life, remembered about the Exodus of the people of Isra’el and gave instructions about what to do with his bones.
23By trusting, the parents of Moshe hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they weren’t afraid of the king’s decree.
24By trusting, Moshe, after he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter. 25He chose being mistreated along with God’s people rather than enjoying the passing pleasures of sin. 26He had come to regard abuse suffered on behalf of the Messiah as greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, for he kept his eyes fixed on the reward.
27By trusting, he left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger; he persevered as one who sees the unseen.
28By trusting, he obeyed the requirements for the Pesach, including the smearing of the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Isra’el.
29By trusting, they walked through the Red Sea as through dry land; when the Egyptians tried to do it, the sea swallowed them up.
30By trusting, the walls of Yericho fell down — after the people had marched around them for seven days.
31By trusting, Rachav the prostitute welcomed the spies and therefore did not die along with those who were disobedient.
32What more should I say? There isn’t time to tell about Gid‘on, Barak, Shimshon, Yiftach, David, Sh’mu’el and the prophets; 33who, through trusting, conquered kingdoms, worked righteousness, received what was promised, shut the mouths of lions, 34quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, had their weakness turned to strength, grew mighty in battle and routed foreign armies. 35Women received back their dead resurrected; other people were stretched on the rack and beaten to death, refusing to be ransomed, so that they would gain a better resurrection. 36Others underwent the trials of being mocked and whipped, then chained and imprisoned. 37They were stoned, sawed in two, murdered by the sword; they went about clothed in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted, mistreated, 38wandering about in deserts and mountains, living in caves and holes in the ground! The world was not worthy of them!
39All of these had their merit attested because of their trusting. Nevertheless, they did not receive what had been promised, 40because God had planned something better that would involve us, so that only with us would they be brought to the goal.
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