Hebrews 11:39

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Heb 11:13 : 13 These 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.
  • Heb 11:2 : 2 For therein the elders had witness borne to them.
  • 1 Pet 1:12 : 12 To whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto you, did they minister these things, which now have been announced unto you through them that preached the gospel unto you by the Holy Spirit sent forth from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.
  • Luke 10:23-24 : 23 And turning to the disciples, he said privately, Blessed [are] the eyes which see the things that ye see: 24 for I say unto you, that many prophets and kings desired to see the things which ye see, and saw them not; and to hear the things which ye hear, and heard them not.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Heb 11:13-14
    2 verses
    84%

    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.

    14For they that say such things make it manifest that they are seeking after a country of their own.

  • Heb 11:1-11
    11 verses
    80%

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

    2For therein the elders had witness borne to them.

    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:

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

  • Heb 11:37-38
    2 verses
    77%

    37they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword: they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

    38(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.

  • Heb 11:30-35
    6 verses
    74%

    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.

    35Women received their dead by a resurrection: and others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:

  • Heb 3:18-19
    2 verses
    74%

    18And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that were disobedient?

    19And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

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

  • Heb 10:35-36
    2 verses
    73%

    35Cast not away therefore your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward.

    36For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

  • Heb 4:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.

    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.

  • 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,

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

  • Heb 11:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    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 4:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

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

    21and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

  • Heb 11:25-28
    4 verses
    71%

    25choosing rather to share ill treatment with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

    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.

  • Rom 11:30-31
    2 verses
    70%

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

    31even so have these also now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they also may now obtain mercy.

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

  • Rom 9:30-31
    2 verses
    70%

    30What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who followed not after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:

    31but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at [that] law.

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

  • 13For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed that he should be heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.

  • 11Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man fall after the same example of disobedience.

  • 5Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

  • 11and he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision; that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might be reckoned unto them;

  • 11Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me: