Hebrews 11:27

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By faith he left Egypt without fearing the king’s anger, for he persevered as though he could see the one who is invisible.

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  • Heb 11:13 : 13 These 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.
  • Exod 2:14-15 : 14 The man replied,“Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? Are you planning to kill me like you killed that Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, thinking,“Surely what I did has become known.” 15 When Pharaoh heard about this event, he sought to kill Moses. So Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he settled by a certain well.
  • Heb 11:1 : 1 People Commended for Their Faith Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, being convinced of what we do not see.
  • Exod 14:10-13 : 10 When Pharaoh got closer, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians marching after them, and they were terrified. The Israelites cried out to the LORD, 11 and they said to Moses,“Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the desert? What in the world have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? 12 Isn’t this what we told you in Egypt,‘Leave us alone so that we can serve the Egyptians, because it is better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!’” 13 Moses said to the people,“Do not fear! Stand firm and see the salvation of the LORD that he will provide for you today; for the Egyptians that you see today you will never, ever see again.
  • Exod 10:28-29 : 28 Pharaoh said to him,“Go from me! Watch out for yourself! Do not appear before me again, for when you see my face you will die!” 29 Moses said,“As you wish! I will not see your face again.”
  • 1 Tim 1:17 : 17 Now to the eternal king, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever! Amen.
  • 1 Tim 6:16 : 16 He alone possesses immortality and lives in unapproachable light, whom no human has ever seen or is able to see. To him be honor and eternal power! Amen.
  • Heb 6:15 : 15 And so by persevering, Abraham inherited the promise.
  • Heb 10:32 : 32 But remember the former days when you endured a harsh conflict of suffering after you were enlightened.
  • Exod 11:8 : 8 All these your servants will come down to me and bow down to me, saying,‘Go, you and all the people who follow you,’ and after that I will go out.” Then Moses went out from Pharaoh in great anger.
  • Exod 12:11 : 11 This is how you are to eat it– dressed to travel, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You are to eat it in haste. It is the LORD’s Passover.
  • Exod 12:37-42 : 37 The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about 600,000 men on foot, plus their dependents. 38 A mixed multitude also went up with them, and flocks and herds– a very large number of cattle. 39 They baked cakes of bread without yeast using the dough they had brought from Egypt, for it was made without yeast– because they were thrust out of Egypt and were not able to delay, they could not prepare food for themselves either. 40 Now the length of time the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years. 41 At the end of the 430 years, on the very day, all the regiments of the LORD went out of the land of Egypt. 42 It was a night of vigil for the LORD to bring them out from the land of Egypt, and so on this night all Israel is to keep the vigil to the LORD for generations to come.
  • Exod 12:50 : 50 So all the Israelites did exactly as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron.
  • Exod 13:17-21 : 17 The Leading of God When Pharaoh released the people, God did not lead them by the way to the land of the Philistines, although that was nearby, for God said,“Lest the people change their minds and return to Egypt when they experience war.” 18 So God brought the people around by the way of the wilderness to the Red Sea, and the Israelites went up from the land of Egypt prepared for battle. 19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the Israelites solemnly swear,“God will surely attend to you, and you will carry my bones up from this place with you.” 20 They journeyed from Sukkoth and camped in Etham, on the edge of the desert. 21 Now the LORD was going before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them in the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel day or night.
  • Ps 16:8 : 8 I constantly trust in the LORD; because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
  • Matt 10:22 : 22 And you will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved!
  • Matt 24:13 : 13 But the person who endures to the end will be saved.
  • Mark 4:17 : 17 But they have no root in themselves and do not endure. Then, when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they fall away.
  • Mark 13:13 : 13 You will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
  • Acts 2:25 : 25 For David says about him,‘I saw the Lord always in front of me, for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken.
  • 1 Cor 13:7 : 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
  • 2 Cor 4:18 : 18 because we are not looking at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen. For what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.
  • Exod 4:19 : 19 The LORD said to Moses in Midian,“Go back to Egypt, because all the men who were seeking your life are dead.”
  • Heb 12:2-3 : 2 keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. For the joy set out for him he endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 Think of him who endured such opposition against himself by sinners, so that you may not grow weary in your souls and give up.
  • Jas 5:11 : 11 Think of how we regard as blessed those who have endured. You have heard of Job’s endurance and you have seen the Lord’s purpose, that the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
  • 1 Pet 1:8 : 8 You have not seen him, but you love him. You do not see him now but you believe in him, and so you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,

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  • Heb 11:22-26
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    22By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, mentioned the exodus of the sons of Israel and gave instructions about his burial.

    23By 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.

    24By faith, when he grew up, Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,

    25choosing rather to be ill-treated with the people of God than to enjoy sin’s fleeting pleasure.

    26He regarded abuse suffered for Christ to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for his eyes were fixed on the reward.

  • Heb 11:28-31
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    28By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the one who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.

    29By faith they crossed the Red Sea as if on dry ground, but when the Egyptians tried it, they were swallowed up.

    30By faith the walls of Jericho fell after the people marched around them for seven days.

    31By faith Rahab the prostitute escaped the destruction of the disobedient, because she welcomed the spies in peace.

  • Heb 11:1-11
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    1People Commended for Their Faith Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, being convinced of what we do not see.

    2For by it the people of old received God’s commendation.

    3By faith we understand that the worlds were set in order at God’s command, so that the visible has its origin in the invisible.

    4By 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.

    5By 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.

    6Now 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.

    7By 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.

    8By 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.

    9By 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.

    10For he was looking forward to the city with firm foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

    11By 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.

  • Heb 11:13
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    13These 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.

  • Heb 11:38-39
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    38(the world was not worthy of them); they wandered in deserts and mountains and caves and openings in the earth.

    39And these all were commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised.

  • Heb 11:16-17
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    16But 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.

    17By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises, yet he was ready to offer up his only son.

  • Heb 11:33-34
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    33Through faith they conquered kingdoms, administered justice, gained what was promised, shut the mouths of lions,

    34quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, gained strength in weakness, became mighty in battle, put foreign armies to flight,

  • Exod 14:31
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    31When Israel saw the great power that the LORD had exercised over the Egyptians, they feared the LORD, and they believed in the LORD and in his servant Moses.

  • Deut 11:3
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    3They did not see the awesome deeds he performed in the midst of Egypt against Pharaoh king of Egypt and his whole land,

  • Acts 7:24
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    24When he saw one of them being hurt unfairly, Moses came to his defense and avenged the person who was mistreated by striking down the Egyptian.

  • Heb 11:19-20
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    19and he reasoned that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense he received him back from there.

    20By faith also Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.

  • Exod 14:13
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    13Moses said to the people,“Do not fear! Stand firm and see the salvation of the LORD that he will provide for you today; for the Egyptians that you see today you will never, ever see again.

  • Ps 105:38
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    38Egypt was happy when they left, for they were afraid of them.

  • 2 Cor 4:18
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    18because we are not looking at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen. For what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.

  • Exod 9:20-21
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    20Those of Pharaoh’s servants who feared the LORD’s message hurried to bring their servants and livestock into the houses,

    21but those who did not take the LORD’s message seriously left their servants and their cattle in the field.

  • Exod 2:11-12
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    67%

    11The Presumption of the Deliverer In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and observed their hard labor, and he saw an Egyptian man attacking a Hebrew man, one of his own people.

    12He looked this way and that and saw that no one was there, and then he attacked the Egyptian and concealed the body in the sand.

  • Acts 7:39
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    39Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him, but pushed him aside and turned back to Egypt in their hearts,

  • Acts 7:31-32
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    31When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and when he approached to investigate, there came the voice of the Lord,

    32‘I am the God of your forefathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses began to tremble and did not dare to look more closely.

  • Heb 3:18
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    18And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient?

  • Exod 1:17
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    17But the midwives feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.

  • Heb 12:21
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    21In fact, the scene was so terrifying that Moses said,“I shudder with fear.”

  • Exod 13:17
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    17The Leading of God When Pharaoh released the people, God did not lead them by the way to the land of the Philistines, although that was nearby, for God said,“Lest the people change their minds and return to Egypt when they experience war.”

  • Exod 3:6
    66%

    6He added,“I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Then Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.

  • Exod 11:3
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    3(Now the LORD granted the people favor with the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, respected by Pharaoh’s servants and by the Egyptian people.)

  • Heb 4:6
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    6Therefore it remains for some to enter it, yet those to whom it was previously proclaimed did not enter because of disobedience.

  • Rom 4:20
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    20He did not waver in unbelief about the promise of God but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God.