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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   Day 349, 15 December 2025 - 23rd Day of Advent   
      
   1) Hebrews 11 , 12, 13   
      
   Hebrews 11   
   Faith   
      
   1 (2Co 4:18; 5:7) Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,   
   the evidence of things not seen.   
   2 For by it the men of old obtained a good report.   
   3 (Jn 1:3; Ro 4:17) By faith we understand that the universe was framed   
   by the word of God, so that things that are seen were not made   
   out of things which are visible.   
   4 (Mt 23:35; Heb 12:24) By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent   
   sacrifice than Cain offered. Through this he was approved as righteous,   
   with God testifying concerning his gifts. He still speaks through his   
   faith, though he is dead.   
   5 (2Ki 2:11; Jude 1:14) By faith Enoch was taken to heaven so that   
   he would not see death. He was not found, because God took him away.   
   For before he was taken, he had this commendation, that he pleased God.   
   6 (1Ch 28:9; Jer 29:13-14) And without faith it is impossible to please God,   
   for he who comes to God must believe that He exists and that He is a   
   rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.   
   7 (1Pe 3:20; Eze 14:14) By faith Noah, being divinely warned about things   
   not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark to save his family,   
   by which he condemned the world   
   and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.   
   8 (Ge 12:1-4; 12:7) By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out   
   into a place which he would later receive as an inheritance. He went out   
   not knowing where he was going.   
   9 (Ge 12:8; 18:9) By faith he dwelt in the promised land, as in a foreign   
   land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs of the same promise,   
   10 (Heb 12:22; 13:14) for he was looking for a city which has foundations,   
   whose builder and maker is God.   
   11 (Ge 18:11-14; Heb 10:23) By faith Sarah herself also received the ability   
   to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age,   
   because she judged Him faithful who had promised.   
   12 (Ge 22:17; 15:5; 32:12) Therefore from one man, who was as good as dead,   
   sprang so many, a multitude as the stars of the sky and innumerable   
   as the sand by the seashore.   
   13 (Ge 23:4; Ps 39:12) These all died in faith not having received   
   the promises, but having seen them from afar were assured of them,   
   embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims   
   on the earth.   
   14 Those who say such things declare plainly that they are looking   
   for a homeland.   
   15 (Ge 24:6-8) And certainly, if they had been thinking of the country   
   out of which they came, they might have had the opportunity to return.   
   16 (Ex 3:6; 3:15) But they desired a better country, that is, a heavenly one.   
   Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared   
   a city for them.   
   17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac,   
   and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son.   
   18 (Ge 21:12; Ro 9:7) Of him God said,   
   "Through Isaac shall your seed be named."(Ge 21:12.)   
   19 (Ro 4:17-21) He reasoned that God was able to raise him up,   
   even from the dead, from which he indeed received him in a figurative sense.   
   20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.   
   21 By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph   
   and worshipped while leaning on the top of his staff.   
   22 (Ex 13:19; Ge 50:24-25) By faith Joseph, when he was dying, mentioned the   
   exodus of the children of Israel and gave instructions concerning his bones.   
   23 (Ex 1:16; 1:22) By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden by his   
   parents for three months, because they saw he was a beautiful child,   
   and they were not afraid of the king's command.   
   24 (Ex 2:10-11) By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called   
   the son of Pharaoh's daughter,   
   25 (Job 36:21; Ps 84:10) choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people   
   of God than to enjoy thepleasures of sin for a time.   
   26 (Heb 2:2; 10:35) He esteemed the reproach of Christ as greater riches than   
   the treasures in Egypt, for he looked to the reward.   
   27 (Heb 11:13; Ex 2:14-15) By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath   
   of the king. He endured by looking to Him who is invisible.   
   28 (Ex 12:21-30) By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood,   
   lest the one who destroys the firstborn touch them.   
   29 By faith they passed through the Red Sea as on dry land,   
   which the Egyptians attempted to do, but were drowned.   
   30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they were encircled   
   for seven days.   
   31 (Jas 2:25; Jos 6:22-25; Mt 1:5) By faith the prostitute Rahab,   
   when she received the spies with peace, did not perish with   
   those who did not believe.   
   32 (1Sa 1:20; 16:1) And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to   
   tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets,   
   33 (Jdg 14:5-6) who through faith subdued kingdoms, administered justice,   
   obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,   
   34 (Jdg 15:8; 1Ki 19:3) quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge   
   of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in fighting,   
   and turned the armies of foreign enemies to flight.   
   35 Women received their dead raised to life again. Others were tortured   
   and did not accept deliverance,   
   so that they might obtain a better resurrection.   
   36 (Jer 20:2; Ge 39:20; 1Ki 22:27) Still others had trials of mocking   
   and scourging, and even chains and imprisonment.   
   37 (1Ki 19:10; 2Ch 24:21) They were stoned, they were sawn in two,   
   were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered around   
   in sheepskins and goatskins, while destitute, afflicted, and tormented.   
   38 (1Ki 18:4; 19:9) The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts   
   and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth.   
   39 (Heb 11:13; 11:2; 1Pe 1:12) These all have obtained a good report through   
   faith, but they did not receive the promise.   
   40 (Rev 6:11) For God provided something better for us, so that with us they   
   would be made perfect.   
      
   [1] Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things   
   not seen.   
   [2] For by it the elders obtained a good report.   
   [3] Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of   
   God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.   
   [4] By faith Abel offered unto 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 yet speaketh.   
   [5] By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not   
   found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had   
   this testimony, that he pleased God.   
   [6] But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to   
   God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that   
   diligently seek him.   
      
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