⁶ And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God ^(A)must believe that he exists and ^(B)that he rewards those who seek him.

⁹ By faith he went to live in ^(A)the land of promise, as in a foreign land, ^(B)living in tents ^(C)with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.

¹³ These all died in faith, ^(A)not having received the things promised, but ^(B)having seen them and greeted them from afar, and ^(C)having acknowledged that they were ^(D)strangers and exiles on the earth. ¹⁴ For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. ¹⁵ If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, ^(E)they would have had opportunity to return.

³⁶ Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even ^(A)chains and imprisonment. ^37 (B)They were stoned, they were sawn in two,^{[a] (C)}they were killed with the sword. ^(D)They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated— ³⁸ of whom the world was not worthy—^(E)wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

³⁹ And all these, ^(F)though commended through their faith, ^(G)did not receive what was promised, ⁴⁰ since God had provided something better for us, ^(H)that apart from us they should not be made perfect.