Hebrews 11:8-16
1599 Geneva Bible
8 [a]By faith (A)Abraham, when he was called, obeyed God, to go out into a place, which he should afterward receive for inheritance, and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
9 By faith he abode in the land of promise, as in a strange country, as one that dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob heirs with him of the same promise.
10 For he looked for a city having a [b]foundation, whose builder and maker is God.
11 Through faith (B)Sarah also received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful which had promised.
12 And therefore sprang thereof one, even of one which was [c]dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand of the sea shore which is innumerable.
13 All these died in [d]faith, and received not the [e]promises, but saw them afar off, and believed them, and [f]received them thankfully, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
14 For they that say such things, declare plainly, that they seek a country.
15 And if they had been mindful of that country, from whence they came out, they had leisure to have returned.
16 But now they desire a better, that is an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
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- Hebrews 11:8 Abraham and Sarah.
- Hebrews 11:10 This foundation is set against their tabernacle.
- Hebrews 11:12 As unlikely to bear children, as if she had been stark dead.
- Hebrews 11:13 In faith, which they had while they lived, and followed them even to their grave.
- Hebrews 11:13 This is the figure Metonymy, for the things promised.
- Hebrews 11:13 For the Patriarchs were wont when they received the promises, to profess their religion, by building of altars, and calling on the name of the Lord.
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