Hebrews 11:2

American Standard Version (1901)

For therein the elders had witness borne to them.

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  • Heb 11:4 : 4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had witness borne to him that he was righteous, God bearing witness in respect of his gifts: and through it he being dead yet speaketh.
  • Heb 11:39 : 39 And these all, having had witness borne to them through their faith, received not the promise,

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  • Heb 11:38-40
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    38(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.

    39And these all, having had witness borne to them through their faith, received not the promise,

    40God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

  • Heb 11:1
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    1Now faith is assurance of [things] hoped for, a conviction of things not seen.

  • Heb 11:3-11
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    3By faith we understand that the worlds have been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen hath not been made out of things which appear.

    4By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had witness borne to him that he was righteous, God bearing witness in respect of his gifts: and through it he being dead yet speaketh.

    5By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God translated him: for he hath had witness borne to him that before his translation he had been well-pleasing unto God:

    6And without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing [unto him] ; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.

    7By faith Noah, being warned [of God] concerning things not seen as yet, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

    8By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out unto a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

    9By faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise, as in a [land] not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

    10for he looked for the city which hath the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

    11By faith even Sarah herself received power to conceive seed when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised:

  • Heb 11:13
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    13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

  • Rom 1:17
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    17For therein is revealed a righteousness of God from faith unto faith: as it is written, But the righteous shall live by faith.

  • Heb 11:30-34
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    30By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been compassed about for seven days.

    31By faith Rahab the harlot perished not with them that were disobedient, having received the spies with peace.

    32And what shall I more say? for the time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah; of David and Samuel and the prophets:

    33who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

    34quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, waxed mighty in war, turned to flight armies of aliens.

  • Jas 2:22
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    22Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect;

  • Heb 2:2
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    2For if the word spoken through angels proved stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;

  • Heb 11:26-28
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    26accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he looked unto the recompense of reward.

    27By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

    28By faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.

  • Heb 11:19-20
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    19accounting that God [is] able to raise up, even from the dead; from whence he did also in a figure receive him back.

    20By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.

  • Heb 11:16-17
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    16But now they desire a better [country], that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city.

    17By faith Abraham, being tried, offered up Isaac: yea, he that had gladly received the promises was offering up his only begotten [son] ;

  • Rom 10:17
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    17So belief [cometh] of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

  • Gal 3:6
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    6Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.

  • Rom 4:22
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    22Wherefore also it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.

  • Heb 4:2
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    2For indeed we have had good tidings preached unto us, even as also they: but the word of hearing did not profit them, because it was not united by faith with them that heard.

  • 1 Pet 1:21
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    21who through him are believers in God, that raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

  • Heb 6:15
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    15And thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

  • Gen 15:6
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    6And he believed in Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.

  • Heb 6:12
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    12that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

  • Rom 4:20
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    20yet, looking unto the promise of God, he wavered not through unbelief, but waxed strong through faith, giving glory to God,

  • Rom 4:3
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    3For what saith the scripture? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.

  • Heb 1:1
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    1God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners,

  • Jas 2:24
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    24Ye see that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.

  • Rom 2:7
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    7to them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life:

  • Rom 5:2
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    2through whom also we have had our access by faith into this grace wherein we stand; and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

  • Heb 10:23
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    23let us hold fast the confession of our hope that it waver not; for he is faithful that promised:

  • Rom 11:30
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    30For as ye in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,

  • Gal 3:11
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    11Now that no man is justified by the law before God, is evident: for, The righteous shall live by faith;

  • Heb 6:17
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    17Wherein God, being minded to show more abundantly unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

  • Titus 2:2
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    2that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience:

  • Heb 4:6
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    6Seeing therefore it remaineth that some should enter thereinto, and they to whom the good tidings were before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,

  • Gal 3:9
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    9So then they that are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.