Hebrews 11:39

KJV1611 – Modern English

And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise,

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  • Heb 11:13 : 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, were assured of them, embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
  • Heb 11:2 : 2 For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.
  • 1 Pet 1:12 : 12 To them it was revealed that not to themselves, but to us they were ministering the things which have now been reported to you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things which angels desire to look into.
  • Luke 10:23-24 : 23 And he turned to his disciples and said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see: 24 For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which you see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which you hear, and have not heard them.

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  • Heb 11:13-14
    2 verses
    84%

    13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, were assured of them, embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

    14For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland.

  • Heb 11:1-11
    11 verses
    80%

    1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

    2For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.

    3Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

    4By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead still speaks.

    5By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death; and was not found, because God had taken him: for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

    6But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

    7By faith Noah, being warned by God of things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household; by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

    8By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out to a place which he would afterward receive as an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing where he was going.

    9By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

    10For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

    11Through faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised.

  • Heb 11:40
    78%

    40God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.

  • Heb 11:37-38
    2 verses
    77%

    37They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented—

    38of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth.

  • Heb 11:30-35
    6 verses
    74%

    30By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they were encircled for seven days.

    31By faith the harlot Rahab did not perish with those who did not believe, when she had received the spies with peace.

    32And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets:

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

    34quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.

    35Women received their dead raised to life again. Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

  • Heb 3:18-19
    2 verses
    74%

    18And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not believe?

    19So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

  • Heb 6:15
    74%

    15And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

  • Heb 10:35-36
    2 verses
    73%

    35Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward.

    36For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

  • Heb 4:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

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

    2For unto us the gospel was preached, as well as unto them; but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.

  • Heb 4:6
    73%

    6Seeing therefore it remains that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached did not enter because of unbelief:

  • Heb 6:12
    72%

    12That you not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

  • Heb 11:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country: therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

    17By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,

  • Rom 4:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

    20He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God.

    21And being fully convinced that what He had promised, He was able also to perform.

  • Heb 11:25-28
    4 verses
    71%

    25choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin,

    26esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

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

    28Through faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroyed the firstborn should touch them.

  • Rom 11:30-31
    2 verses
    70%

    30For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience,

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

  • Heb 10:23
    70%

    23Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful;

  • Rom 9:30-31
    2 verses
    70%

    30What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness of faith.

    31But Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness.

  • Heb 11:19
    69%

    19concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense.

  • Rom 4:13
    69%

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

  • Heb 4:11
    69%

    11Let us therefore labor to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of unbelief.

  • 1 Cor 10:5
    68%

    5But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

  • Rom 4:11
    68%

    11And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be credited to them also;

  • Num 32:11
    68%

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