Hebrews 11:5

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By faith Enoch was taken up to heaven so that he did not see death; he was seen no longer, for God took him away: for before he was taken, witness had been given that he was well-pleasing to God:

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  • Gen 5:21-24 : 21 And Enoch was sixty-five years old when he became the father of Methuselah: 22 And after the birth of Methuselah, Enoch went on in God's ways for three hundred years, and had sons and daughters: 23 And all the years of Enoch's life were three hundred and sixty-five: 24 And Enoch went on in God's ways: and he was not seen again, for God took him.
  • 2 Kgs 2:11 : 11 And while they went on their way, going on talking together, suddenly there were carriages and horses of fire separating them from one another and Elijah went up to heaven in a great wind.
  • Jude 1:14 : 14 The prophet Enoch, who was the seventh after Adam, said of these men, The Lord came with tens of thousands of his saints,
  • Rev 11:9-9 : 9 And the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will be looking on their dead bodies three days and a half, and will not let their dead bodies be put in the earth. 10 And those who are on the earth will have pleasure and delight over them; and they will send offerings one to another because these two prophets gave great trouble to all on the earth. 11 And after three days and a half the breath of life from God went into them, and they got up on their feet; and great fear came on those who saw them. 12 And a great voice from heaven came to their ears, saying to them, Come up here. And they went up into heaven in the cloud, and were seen by those desiring their death.
  • 2 Kgs 2:16-17 : 16 And they said, Your servants have with us here fifty strong men; be pleased to let them go in search of Elijah; for it may be that the spirit of the Lord has taken him up and put him down on some mountain or in some valley. But he said, Do not send them. 17 But when they kept on requesting him, he was shamed and said, Send, then. So they sent fifty men; but after searching for three days, they came back without having seen him.
  • Ps 89:48 : 48 What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.)
  • Luke 3:37 : 37 The son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan,
  • John 8:51-52 : 51 Truly I say to you, If a man keeps my word he will never see death. 52 The Jews said to him, Now we are certain that you have an evil spirit. Abraham is dead, and the prophets are dead; and you say, If a man keeps my word he will never see death.
  • Rom 8:8-9 : 8 So that those who are in the flesh are not able to give pleasure to God. 9 You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one of his.
  • 1 Thess 2:4 : 4 But even as the good news was given to us by the approval of God, so we give it out; not as pleasing men, but God by whom our hearts are tested.
  • Heb 11:3-4 : 3 By faith it is clear to us that the order of events was fixed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made from things which only seem to be. 4 By faith Abel made a better offering to God than Cain, and he had witness through it of his righteousness, God giving his approval of his offering: and his voice still comes to us through it though he is dead.
  • Heb 11:6 : 6 And without faith it is not possible to be well-pleasing to him, for it is necessary for anyone who comes to God to have the belief that God is, and that he is a rewarder of all those who make a serious search for him.
  • 1 John 3:22 : 22 And he gives us all our requests, because we keep his laws and do the things which are pleasing in his eyes.
  • Jer 36:26 : 26 And the king gave orders to Jerahmeel, the king's son, and Seraiah, the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah, the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the Lord kept them safe.

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  • Gen 5:20-24
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    20 And all the years of Jared's life were nine hundred and sixty-two: and he came to his end.

    21 And Enoch was sixty-five years old when he became the father of Methuselah:

    22 And after the birth of Methuselah, Enoch went on in God's ways for three hundred years, and had sons and daughters:

    23 And all the years of Enoch's life were three hundred and sixty-five:

    24 And Enoch went on in God's ways: and he was not seen again, for God took him.

  • Heb 11:6-11
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    6 And without faith it is not possible to be well-pleasing to him, for it is necessary for anyone who comes to God to have the belief that God is, and that he is a rewarder of all those who make a serious search for him.

    7 By faith Noah, being moved by the fear of God, made ready an ark for the salvation of his family, because God had given him news of things which were not seen at the time; and through it the world was judged by him, and he got for his heritage the righteousness which is by faith.

    8 By faith Abraham did as God said when he was ordered to go out into a place which was to be given to him as a heritage, and went out without knowledge of where he was going.

    9 By faith he was a wanderer in the land of the agreement, as in a strange land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had a part with him in the same heritage:

    10 For he was looking for the strong town, whose builder and maker is God.

    11 And by faith Sarah herself had power to give birth, when she was very old, because she had faith in him who gave his word;

  • Heb 11:1-4
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    1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the sign that the things not seen are true.

    2 For by it our fathers had God's approval.

    3 By faith it is clear to us that the order of events was fixed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made from things which only seem to be.

    4 By faith Abel made a better offering to God than Cain, and he had witness through it of his righteousness, God giving his approval of his offering: and his voice still comes to us through it though he is dead.

  • Heb 11:13
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    13 All these came to their end in faith, not having had the heritage; but having seen it with delight far away, they gave witness that they were wanderers and not of the earth.

  • Heb 11:39-40
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    39 And not one of these got the good things of the agreement, though they all had a good record through faith,

    40 Because God had kept some better thing for us, so that it was not possible for them to become complete without us.

  • Gen 5:10-11
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    10 And after the birth of Kenan, Enosh went on living for eight hundred and fifteen years, and had sons and daughters:

    11 And all the years of Enosh were nine hundred and five: and he came to his end.

  • Heb 11:27-28
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    27 By faith he went out of Egypt, not being turned from his purpose by fear of the wrath of the king; for he kept on his way, as seeing him who is unseen.

    28 By faith he kept the Passover, and put the sign of the blood on the houses, so that the angel of destruction might not put their oldest sons to death.

  • Gen 5:17-18
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    17 And all the years of Mahalalel's life were eight hundred and ninety-five: and he came to his end.

    18 And Jared was a hundred and sixty-two years old when he became the father of Enoch:

  • Heb 11:17
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    17 By faith Abraham made an offering of Isaac, when he was tested: and he with whom the agreement had been made gave up as an offering the only son of his body,

  • Gen 15:6
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    6 And he had faith in the Lord, and it was put to his account as righteousness.

  • Gen 5:27
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    27 And all the years of Methuselah's life were nine hundred and sixty-nine: and he came to his end.

  • Heb 11:25
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    25 Feeling that it was better to undergo pain with the people of God, than for a short time to have a taste of the pleasures of sin;

  • Heb 11:19
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    19 Judging that God was able to give life even to the dead; and because of this he did get him back as if from death.

  • Jude 1:14
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    14 The prophet Enoch, who was the seventh after Adam, said of these men, The Lord came with tens of thousands of his saints,

  • Heb 11:31
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    31 By faith Rahab, the loose woman, was not put to death with those who had gone against God's orders, because she had taken into her house in peace those sent to see the land.

  • 1 Pet 1:21
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    21 Who through him have faith in God who took him up again from the dead into glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

  • Rom 4:20
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    20 Still, he did not give up faith in the undertaking of God, but was made strong by faith, giving glory to God,

  • Jas 2:22
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    22 You see that his faith was helping his works and was made complete by them;

  • Gen 6:9
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    9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God.