Hebrews 11 (NET)

Hebrews 11:1¹Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, being convinced of what we do not see.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 5:72 Cor 4:18Rom 8:24-25Heb 11:7Heb 10:221 Pet 1:7-8Ps 27:13Heb 11:27Heb 6:18-19Heb 6:12

Hebrews 11:2²For by it the people of old received God’s commendation.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 11:39Heb 11:4

Hebrews 11:3³By faith we understand that the worlds were set in order at God’s command, so that the visible has its origin in the invisible.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 33:6John 1:32 Pet 3:5Rom 4:17Acts 17:24Rev 4:11Heb 1:2Jer 10:11Rom 1:19-21Gen 1:1-2:1

Hebrews 11:4⁴By faith Abel offered God a greater sacrifice than Cain, and through his faith he was commended as righteous, because God commended him for his offerings. And through his faith he still speaks, though he is dead.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 4:3-51 John 3:11-12Heb 12:24Gen 4:10Matt 23:35Prov 15:8Jude 1:11Heb 9:22Gen 4:15Gen 4:8

Hebrews 11:5⁵By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death, and he was not to be found because God took him up. For before his removal he had been commended as having pleased God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 5:21-24Jude 1:142 Kgs 2:11Heb 11:6Rev 11:9-121 John 3:221 Thess 2:42 Kgs 2:16-17Ps 89:48John 8:51-52

Hebrews 11:6⁶Now without faith it is impossible to please him, for the one who approaches God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 8:17Jer 29:13-14Matt 6:331 Chr 28:9Ps 105:3-4Luke 12:31Ps 119:10Heb 7:25Heb 3:12Rom 10:14

Hebrews 11:7⁷By faith Noah, when he was warned about things not yet seen, with reverent regard constructed an ark for the deliverance of his family. Through faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 6:13-7:11 Pet 3:20Ezek 14:14Luke 17:26Rom 4:13Ezek 14:20Gal 5:5Gen 7:23Phil 3:9Rom 3:22

Hebrews 11:8⁸By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he would later receive as an inheritance, and he went out without understanding where he was going.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 7:2-4Gen 12:1-4Gen 15:7-8Matt 7:24-25Gen 22:18Gen 12:7Jas 2:14-16Isa 41:2Ps 105:9-11Rom 10:16

Hebrews 11:9⁹By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 12:8Gen 13:18Gen 13:3Acts 7:5-6Heb 6:17Gen 18:9Gen 26:3-4Gen 35:27Gen 48:3-4Gen 28:4

Hebrews 11:10¹⁰For he was looking forward to the city with firm foundations, whose architect and builder is God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 13:14Phil 3:202 Cor 5:1Heb 12:22John 14:2Heb 3:4Rev 21:2Rev 21:10-27Heb 12:28Isa 14:32

Hebrews 11:11¹¹By faith, even though Sarah herself was barren and he was too old, he received the ability to procreate, because he regarded the one who had given the promise to be trustworthy.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 10:23Rom 4:20-21Gen 18:11-14Gen 21:1-2Luke 1:361 Pet 3:5-6Gen 17:17-19

Hebrews 11:12¹²So in fact children were fathered by one man—and this one as good as dead— like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand on the seashore.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 22:17Gen 32:12Gen 15:5Hos 1:10Jer 33:22Gen 26:4Exod 32:13Isa 10:22Rev 20:81 Chr 27:23

Hebrews 11:13¹³These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 23:4Ps 39:12Heb 11:271 Chr 29:14-151 Pet 2:11Heb 11:39John 8:56Rom 8:24Eph 2:191 Pet 1:10-12

Hebrews 11:14¹⁴For those who speak in such a way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 4:18-5:7Heb 11:16Heb 13:14Rom 8:23-25Phil 1:23

Hebrews 11:15¹⁵In fact, if they had been thinking of the land that they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 24:6-8Gen 12:10

Hebrews 11:16¹⁶But as it is, they aspire to a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 13:14Phil 3:20Heb 11:10John 14:2Matt 25:34Heb 2:112 Tim 4:18Heb 12:22Exod 3:6Gen 17:7-8

Hebrews 11:17¹⁷By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises, yet he was ready to offer up his only son.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 22:16Gen 22:1-12Jas 2:21-241 Pet 1:6-7Jas 5:11Rev 3:101 Pet 4:12Prov 17:32 Chr 32:31Dan 11:35

Hebrews 11:18¹⁸God had told him, “Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 21:12Rom 9:7Gen 17:19

Hebrews 11:19¹⁹and he reasoned that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense he received him back from there.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 9:28Rom 4:17-21Eph 3:20Gen 22:13Gen 22:4-5Heb 11:11-12Heb 9:24Rom 5:14

Hebrews 11:20²⁰By faith also Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 27:27-40Gen 28:2-3

Hebrews 11:21²¹By faith Jacob, as he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped as he leaned on his staff.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 47:31-48:1Gen 48:5-22

Hebrews 11:22²²By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, mentioned the exodus of the sons of Israel and gave instructions about his burial.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 13:19Gen 50:24-25Josh 24:32Acts 7:16

Hebrews 11:23²³By faith, when Moses was born, his parents hid him for three months, because they saw the child was beautiful and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 1:22Exod 1:16Exod 2:2-10Heb 13:6Matt 10:28Acts 7:20Isa 41:14Isa 8:12-13Luke 12:4-5Ps 118:6

Hebrews 11:24²⁴By faith, when he grew up, Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 2:10-11Acts 7:21-24

Hebrews 11:25²⁵choosing rather to be ill-treated with the people of God than to enjoy sin’s fleeting pleasure.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 84:102 Tim 2:3-10Job 36:211 Pet 4:12-162 Cor 5:17Job 20:51 Pet 1:6-71 Pet 2:102 Thess 1:3-6Ps 73:18-20

Hebrews 11:26²⁶He regarded abuse suffered for Christ to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for his eyes were fixed on the reward.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 10:35Heb 11:61 Pet 4:14Matt 5:122 Cor 12:102 Cor 6:10Heb 2:2Luke 14:14Ps 89:50-51Rev 3:18

Hebrews 11:27²⁷By faith he left Egypt without fearing the king’s anger, for he persevered as though he could see the one who is invisible.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 4:18Heb 11:13Exod 2:14-15Heb 11:1Exod 10:28-29Exod 14:10-13Exod 4:19Jas 5:111 Cor 13:71 Pet 1:8

Hebrews 11:28²⁸By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the one who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 12:21-30Heb 9:191 Pet 1:2Heb 12:24Exod 12:3-14

Hebrews 11:29²⁹By faith they crossed the Red Sea as if on dry ground, but when the Egyptians tried it, they were swallowed up.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 14:13-15:21Ps 106:9-11Ps 78:13Hab 3:8-10Isa 51:9-10Isa 63:11-16Josh 2:10Ps 66:6Isa 11:15-16Ps 114:1-5

Hebrews 11:30³⁰By faith the walls of Jericho fell after the people marched around them for seven days.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 6:3-202 Cor 10:4-5

Hebrews 11:31³¹By faith Rahab the prostitute escaped the destruction of the disobedient, because she welcomed the spies in peace.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 2:25Josh 6:22-25Matt 1:5Josh 2:1-24Matt 1:1Josh 1:11 Pet 2:81 Pet 3:20Heb 3:18

Hebrews 11:32³²And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 1:201 Sam 16:11 Sam 16:13Judg 11:1-12Judg 13:1-16John 21:251 Pet 1:10-121 Sam 12:111 Sam 3:1-122 Pet 1:21

Hebrews 11:33³³Through faith they conquered kingdoms, administered justice, gained what was promised, shut the mouths of lions,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 6:12-15Ps 144:1-22 Tim 4:17Heb 10:361 Pet 5:82 Sam 5:4-25Dan 6:20-23Gal 3:16Heb 11:4-8Judg 14:5-6

Hebrews 11:34³⁴quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, gained strength in weakness, became mighty in battle, put foreign armies to flight,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 17:51-522 Kgs 6:16-18Judg 15:8Ps 144:102 Chr 32:20-222 Cor 12:9-101 Kgs 19:31 Sam 14:13-152 Kgs 6:322 Sam 10:15-19

Hebrews 11:35³⁵and women received back their dead raised to life. But others were tortured, not accepting release, to obtain resurrection to a better life.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 17:22-242 Kgs 4:27-37Phil 3:11Acts 9:411 Cor 15:54Acts 24:15Acts 23:6John 11:40-45Luke 7:12-16Acts 22:29

Hebrews 11:36³⁶And others experienced mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 20:2Gen 39:20Jer 37:15-212 Chr 30:102 Chr 16:10Heb 10:34Jer 20:7Jer 32:2-3Lam 3:52-55Matt 23:34

Hebrews 11:37³⁷They were stoned, sawed apart, murdered with the sword; they went about in sheepskins and goatskins; they were destitute, afflicted, ill-treatedCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 24:21Jer 26:231 Kgs 19:101 Kgs 21:13-152 Kgs 1:81 Kgs 21:10Acts 7:521 Cor 4:9-131 Kgs 18:131 Kgs 18:4

Hebrews 11:38³⁸(the world was not worthy of them); they wandered in deserts and mountains and caves and openings in the earth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 18:41 Kgs 19:91 Sam 22:1Isa 57:11 Sam 24:1-31 Kgs 14:12-131 Kgs 17:31 Kgs 18:131 Sam 26:1Ps 142:1-7

Hebrews 11:39³⁹And these all were commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 10:23-24Heb 11:13Heb 11:21 Pet 1:12

Hebrews 11:40⁴⁰For God had provided something better for us, so that they would be made perfect together with us.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 6:11Heb 10:11-14Heb 8:6Heb 7:19Heb 5:9Heb 9:23Heb 9:8-15Rom 3:25-26Heb 12:23-24Heb 7:22