58:011:010 For he looked for a city which hath foundations,
whose builder
and
maker is God.
58:011:011 Through faith also Sara herself received
strength to conceive
seed,
and was delivered of a child when she was past age,
because
she judged him faithful who had promised.
58:011:012 Therefore sprang there even of one, and
him as good as dead,
so
many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the
sand
which
is by the sea shore innumerable.
58:011:013 These all died in faith, not having received
the promises, but
having
seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and
embraced
them, and confessed that they were strangers and
pilgrims
on the earth.
58:011:014 For they that say such things declare plainly
that they seek a
country.
58:011:015 And truly, if they had been mindful of
that country from
whence
they came out, they might have had opportunity to have
returned.
58:011:016 But now they desire a better country, that
is, an heavenly:
wherefore
God is not ashamed to be called their God: for
he
hath
prepared for them a city.
58:011:017 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered
up Isaac: and he
that
had received the promises offered up his only begotten
son,
58:011:018 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:
58:011:019 Accounting that God was able to raise him
up, even from the
dead;
from whence also he received him in a figure.
58:011:020 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning
things to
come.
58:011:021 By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed
both the sons of
Joseph;
and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff.
58:011:022 By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention
of the departing
of
the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning
his
bones.
58:011:023 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid
three months of his
parents,
because they saw he was a proper child; and they were
not
afraid of the king’s commandment.
58:011:024 By faith Moses, when he was come to years,
refused to be
called
the son of Pharaoh’s daughter;
58:011:025 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with
the people of God,
than
to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
58:011:026 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater
riches than the
treasures
in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence
of
the
reward.
58:011:027 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing
the wrath of the king:
for
he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.


