Hebrews 11:13

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gen 23:4 : 4 "I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
  • Ps 39:12 : 12 "Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
  • John 8:56 : 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad."
  • Heb 11:39 : 39 These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn't receive the promise,
  • Heb 11:27 : 27 By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
  • Gen 49:18 : 18 I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."
  • Gen 48:21 : 21 Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.
  • Gen 49:10 : 10 The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.
  • Gen 25:8 : 8 Abraham gave up the spirit, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
  • Gen 27:2-4 : 2 He said, "See now, I am old. I don't know the day of my death. 3 Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison. 4 Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die."
  • Gen 49:33 : 33 When Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.
  • Gen 50:24 : 24 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."
  • Num 24:17 : 17 I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob. A scepter will rise out of Israel, and shall strike through the corners of Moab, and break down all the sons of Sheth.
  • 1 Chr 29:14-15 : 14 But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you. 15 For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
  • Job 19:25 : 25 But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
  • Ps 119:19 : 19 I am a stranger on the earth. Don't hide your commandments from me.
  • Matt 13:17 : 17 For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn't see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn't hear them.
  • John 12:41 : 41 Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.
  • Rom 4:21 : 21 and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.
  • Rom 8:24 : 24 For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?
  • Eph 2:19 : 19 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,
  • 1 Pet 1:10-12 : 10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you, 11 searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them. 12 To them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, they ministered these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.
  • 1 Pet 1:17 : 17 If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear:
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
  • 1 John 3:19 : 19 And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,
  • Gen 49:28 : 28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing.

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  • Heb 11:37-40
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    37They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

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

    39These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn't receive the promise,

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

  • Heb 11:8-12
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    8By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.

    9By faith, he lived as an alien 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 has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

    11By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.

    12Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.

  • Heb 11:14-19
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    14For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.

    15If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.

    16But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

    17By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son;

    18even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be called;"

    19concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.

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    1Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

    2For by this, the elders obtained testimony.

    3By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

    4By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

    5By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn't see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.

    6Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

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    13Let us therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.

    14For we don't have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.

  • Heb 11:25-28
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    25choosing rather to share ill treatment with God's people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;

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

    27By faith, he left 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.

  • Heb 11:30-34
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    30By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been encircled for seven days.

    31By faith, Rahab the prostitute, didn't perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace.

    32What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets;

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

    34quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee.

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    12that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.

    13For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself,

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

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    15Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

  • 1 Pet 1:8
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    8whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don't see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory--

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    22By faith, Joseph, when his end was near, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel; and gave instructions concerning his bones.

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    6Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter therein, and they to whom the good news was before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,

  • Heb 3:18-19
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    18To whom did he swear that they wouldn't enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

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

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

  • Heb 7:6
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    6but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.

  • 1 Chr 29:15
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    15For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

  • Rom 4:17
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    17As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

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    11Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

  • 2 Cor 5:7
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    7for we walk by faith, not by sight.

  • Heb 13:2
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    2Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.

  • Heb 6:17
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    17In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

  • 1 Cor 10:11
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    11Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.