Hebrews 11:5

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By 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.

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  • Gen 5:21-24 : 21 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. 22 After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God for 300 years, and he had other sons and daughters. 23 The entire lifetime of Enoch was 365 years. 24 Enoch walked with God, and then he disappeared because God took him away.
  • 2 Kgs 2:11 : 11 As they were walking along and talking, suddenly a fiery chariot pulled by fiery horses appeared. They went between Elijah and Elisha, and Elijah went up to heaven in a windstorm.
  • Jude 1:14 : 14 Now Enoch, the seventh in descent beginning with Adam, even prophesied of them, saying,“Look! The Lord is coming with thousands and thousands of his holy ones,
  • Rev 11:9-9 : 9 For three and a half days those from every people, tribe, nation, and language will look at their corpses, because they will not permit them to be placed in a tomb. 10 And those who live on the earth will rejoice over them and celebrate, even sending gifts to each other, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth. 11 But after three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and tremendous fear seized those who were watching them. 12 Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them:“Come up here!” So the two prophets went up to heaven in a cloud while their enemies stared at them.
  • 2 Kgs 2:16-17 : 16 They said to him,“Look, there are fifty capable men with your servants. Let them go and look for your master, for the wind sent from the LORD may have carried him away and dropped him on one of the hills or in one of the valleys.” But Elisha replied,“Don’t send them out.” 17 But they were so insistent, he became embarrassed. So he said,“Send them out.” They sent the fifty men out and they looked for three days, but could not find Elijah.
  • Ps 89:48 : 48 No man can live on without experiencing death, or deliver his life from the power of Sheol.(Selah)
  • Luke 3:37 : 37 the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel, the son of Kenan,
  • John 8:51-52 : 51 I tell you the solemn truth, if anyone obeys my teaching, he will never see death.” 52 Then the Judeans responded,“Now we know you’re possessed by a demon! Both Abraham and the prophets died, and yet you say,‘If anyone obeys my teaching, he will never experience death.’
  • Rom 8:8-9 : 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.
  • 1 Thess 2:4 : 4 but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we declare it, not to please people but God, who examines our hearts.
  • Heb 11:3-4 : 3 By faith we understand that the worlds were set in order at God’s command, so that the visible has its origin in the invisible. 4 By 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.
  • Heb 11:6 : 6 Now 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.
  • 1 John 3:22 : 22 and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing to him.
  • Jer 36:26 : 26 He also ordered Jerahmeel, who was one of the royal princes, Seraiah son of Azriel, and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to arrest the scribe Baruch and the prophet Jeremiah. However, the LORD hid them.

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  • Gen 5:20-24
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    20The entire lifetime of Jared was 962 years, and then he died.

    21When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah.

    22After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God for 300 years, and he had other sons and daughters.

    23The entire lifetime of Enoch was 365 years.

    24Enoch walked with God, and then he disappeared because God took him away.

  • Heb 11:6-11
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    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 11:1-4
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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.

  • 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 11:39-40
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    39And these all were commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised.

    40For God had provided something better for us, so that they would be made perfect together with us.

  • Gen 5:10-11
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    10Enosh lived 815 years after he became the father of Kenan, and he had other sons and daughters.

    11The entire lifetime of Enosh was 905 years, and then he died.

  • Heb 11:27-28
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    27By faith he left Egypt without fearing the king’s anger, for he persevered as though he could see the one who is invisible.

    28By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the one who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.

  • Gen 5:17-18
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    17The entire lifetime of Mahalalel was 895 years, and then he died.

    18When Jared had lived 162 years, he became the father of Enoch.

  • Heb 11:17
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    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.

  • Gen 15:6
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    6Abram believed the LORD, and the LORD credited it as righteousness to him.

  • Gen 5:27
    67%

    27The entire lifetime of Methuselah was 969 years, and then he died.

  • Heb 11:25
    67%

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

  • Heb 11:19
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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.

  • Jude 1:14
    67%

    14Now Enoch, the seventh in descent beginning with Adam, even prophesied of them, saying,“Look! The Lord is coming with thousands and thousands of his holy ones,

  • Heb 11:31
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    31By faith Rahab the prostitute escaped the destruction of the disobedient, because she welcomed the spies in peace.

  • 1 Pet 1:21
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    21Through him you now trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

  • 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.

  • Jas 2:22
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    22You see that his faith was working together with his works and his faith was perfected by works.

  • Gen 6:9
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    9The Judgment of the Flood This is the account of Noah. Noah was a godly man; he was blameless among his contemporaries. He walked with God.