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Parallel Verses
  • The Message - We’re not keeping this quiet, not on your life. Just like the psalmist who wrote, “I believed it, so I said it,” we say what we believe. And what we believe is that the One who raised up the Master Jesus will just as certainly raise us up with you, alive. Every detail works to your advantage and to God’s glory: more and more grace, more and more people, more and more praise!
  • 新标点和合本 - 但我们既有信心,正如经上记着说:“我因信,所以如此说话。”我们也信,所以也说话。
  • 和合本2010(上帝版-简体) - 但我们既然有从同一位灵而来的信心,正如经上记着:“我信,故我说话”,我们也信,所以也说话;
  • 和合本2010(神版-简体) - 但我们既然有从同一位灵而来的信心,正如经上记着:“我信,故我说话”,我们也信,所以也说话;
  • 当代译本 - 圣经上说:“我相信,所以才说。” 我们有同样的信心,我们也相信,所以才这样说。
  • 圣经新译本 - 经上记着说:“我信,所以我说话。”我们既然有同样的信心(“信心”原文作“信心的灵”),也就信,所以也说话,
  • 中文标准译本 - 照着经上所记的:“我信,故我说” ,我们既然有同一个信仰的灵,我们也就信,所以也就说,
  • 现代标点和合本 - 但我们既有信心,正如经上记着说:“我因信,所以如此说话”,我们也信,所以也说话。
  • 和合本(拼音版) - 但我们既有信心,正如经上记着说:“我因信,所以如此说话。” 我们也信,所以也说话。
  • New International Version - It is written: “I believed; therefore I have spoken.” Since we have that same spirit of faith, we also believe and therefore speak,
  • New International Reader's Version - It is written, “I believed, and so I have spoken.” ( Psalm 116:10 ) We have that same spirit of faith. So we also believe and speak.
  • English Standard Version - Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak,
  • New Living Translation - But we continue to preach because we have the same kind of faith the psalmist had when he said, “I believed in God, so I spoke.”
  • Christian Standard Bible - And since we have the same spirit of faith in keeping with what is written, I believed, therefore I spoke, we also believe, and therefore speak.
  • New American Standard Bible - But having the same spirit of faith, according to what is written: “I believed, therefore I spoke,” we also believe, therefore we also speak,
  • New King James Version - And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak,
  • Amplified Bible - Yet we have the same spirit of faith as he had, who wrote in Scripture, “I believed, therefore I spoke.” We also believe, therefore we also speak,
  • American Standard Version - But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, I believed, and therefore did I speak; we also believe, and therefore also we speak;
  • King James Version - We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
  • New English Translation - But since we have the same spirit of faith as that shown in what has been written, “I believed; therefore I spoke,” we also believe, therefore we also speak.
  • World English Bible - But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, “I believed, and therefore I spoke.” We also believe, and therefore we also speak;
  • 新標點和合本 - 但我們既有信心,正如經上記着說:「我因信,所以如此說話。」我們也信,所以也說話。
  • 和合本2010(上帝版-繁體) - 但我們既然有從同一位靈而來的信心,正如經上記着:「我信,故我說話」,我們也信,所以也說話;
  • 和合本2010(神版-繁體) - 但我們既然有從同一位靈而來的信心,正如經上記着:「我信,故我說話」,我們也信,所以也說話;
  • 當代譯本 - 聖經上說:「我相信,所以才說。」 我們有同樣的信心,我們也相信,所以才這樣說。
  • 聖經新譯本 - 經上記著說:“我信,所以我說話。”我們既然有同樣的信心(“信心”原文作“信心的靈”),也就信,所以也說話,
  • 呂振中譯本 - 照 經上 記着說:『我信了,所以說話了』; 如今 我們也這樣;我們既有這同一的「信仰之靈」,我們也就信了,所以也就說話了,
  • 中文標準譯本 - 照著經上所記的:「我信,故我說」 ,我們既然有同一個信仰的靈,我們也就信,所以也就說,
  • 現代標點和合本 - 但我們既有信心,正如經上記著說:「我因信,所以如此說話」,我們也信,所以也說話。
  • 文理和合譯本 - 如經云、我信故言、我儕既有此信、亦因信而言也、
  • 文理委辦譯本 - 經云、我信而言也、我有此心、故信而言、
  • 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 經載云、我因信故言、我既有此信心、亦因信而言、
  • 吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 雖然、經不云乎、『中心所信、不能不言。』吾人既具此信仰精神、亦曰中心所信、不能不言而已矣。
  • Nueva Versión Internacional - Escrito está: «Creí, y por eso hablé». Con ese mismo espíritu de fe también nosotros creemos, y por eso hablamos.
  • 현대인의 성경 - “내가 믿었으므로 말하였다” 는 성경 말씀대로 우리도 그와 같은 믿음의 정신으로 믿고 말합니다.
  • Новый Русский Перевод - А поскольку мы обладаем тем же духом веры – как написано: «Я верил, поэтому я и говорил» , – мы тоже верим и поэтому говорим.
  • Восточный перевод - В Писании сказано: «Я верил, поэтому я и говорил» . А поскольку мы обладаем тем же духом веры, мы тоже верим и поэтому говорим.
  • Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - В Писании сказано: «Я верил, поэтому я и говорил» . А поскольку мы обладаем тем же духом веры, мы тоже верим и поэтому говорим.
  • Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - В Писании сказано: «Я верил, поэтому я и говорил» . А поскольку мы обладаем тем же духом веры, мы тоже верим и поэтому говорим.
  • La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Nous sommes animés de ce même esprit de foi dont il est question dans cette parole de l’Ecriture : J’ai cru, voilà pourquoi j’ai parlé . Nous aussi nous croyons, et c’est pour cela que nous parlons.
  • リビングバイブル - 詩篇の作者は、「私は信じている。それゆえに語る」(116・10)と言いました。同じように私たちも、自分が神の守りの中にあることを確信して、信じていることを大胆に語ります。
  • Nestle Aland 28 - Ἔχοντες δὲ τὸ αὐτὸ πνεῦμα τῆς πίστεως κατὰ τὸ γεγραμμένον· ἐπίστευσα, διὸ ἐλάλησα, καὶ ἡμεῖς πιστεύομεν, διὸ καὶ λαλοῦμεν,
  • unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - ἔχοντες δὲ τὸ αὐτὸ πνεῦμα τῆς πίστεως, κατὰ τὸ γεγραμμένον, ἐπίστευσα, διὸ ἐλάλησα; καὶ ἡμεῖς πιστεύομεν, διὸ καὶ λαλοῦμεν,
  • Nova Versão Internacional - Está escrito: “Cri, por isso falei” . Com esse mesmo espírito de fé nós também cremos e, por isso, falamos,
  • Hoffnung für alle - Wir haben Gottes Geist, der uns auf Gott vertrauen lässt. Es ist derselbe Geist, der auch den Beter in der Heiligen Schrift erfüllte, als er sagte: »Ich vertraute auf Gott, deshalb redete ich!« Weil wir also an Jesus Christus glauben, müssen wir von ihm reden.
  • Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Chúng tôi nói điều chúng tôi tin, như tác giả Thi Thiên đã viết: “Tôi tin Đức Chúa Trời nên tôi nói.”
  • พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - มีเขียนไว้ว่า “ข้าพเจ้ายังเชื่อ ฉะนั้นข้าพเจ้าจึงได้พูด” ด้วยใจเชื่อแบบเดียวกันเราก็เชื่อเช่นนั้นจึงพูดออกมา
  • พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - เพราะ​เรา​มี​วิญญาณ​แห่ง​ความ​เชื่อ​เดียว​กัน ตาม​ที่​มี​บันทึก​ไว้​ว่า “ข้าพเจ้า​เชื่อ ดังนั้น​ข้าพเจ้า​จึง​ประกาศ” เรา​ก็​เชื่อ​ด้วย ดังนั้น​เรา​จึง​ประกาศ​ด้วย
Cross Reference
  • 2 Peter 1:1 - I, Simon Peter, am a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ. I write this to you whose experience with God is as life-changing as ours, all due to our God’s straight dealing and the intervention of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ. Grace and peace to you many times over as you deepen in your experience with God and Jesus, our Master.
  • Proverbs 21:28 - A lying witness is unconvincing; a person who speaks truth is respected.
  • Hebrews 11:1 - The fundamental fact of existence is that this trust in God, this faith, is the firm foundation under everything that makes life worth living. It’s our handle on what we can’t see. The act of faith is what distinguished our ancestors, set them above the crowd.
  • Hebrews 11:3 - By faith, we see the world called into existence by God’s word, what we see created by what we don’t see.
  • Hebrews 11:4 - By an act of faith, Abel brought a better sacrifice to God than Cain. It was what he believed, not what he brought, that made the difference. That’s what God noticed and approved as righteous. After all these centuries, that belief continues to catch our notice.
  • Hebrews 11:5 - By an act of faith, Enoch skipped death completely. “They looked all over and couldn’t find him because God had taken him.” We know on the basis of reliable testimony that before he was taken “he pleased God.” It’s impossible to please God apart from faith. And why? Because anyone who wants to approach God must believe both that he exists and that he cares enough to respond to those who seek him.
  • Hebrews 11:7 - By faith, Noah built a ship in the middle of dry land. He was warned about something he couldn’t see, and acted on what he was told. The result? His family was saved. His act of faith drew a sharp line between the evil of the unbelieving world and the rightness of the believing world. As a result, Noah became intimate with God.
  • Hebrews 11:8 - By an act of faith, Abraham said yes to God’s call to travel to an unknown place that would become his home. When he left he had no idea where he was going. By an act of faith he lived in the country promised him, lived as a stranger camping in tents. Isaac and Jacob did the same, living under the same promise. Abraham did it by keeping his eye on an unseen city with real, eternal foundations—the City designed and built by God.
  • Hebrews 11:11 - By faith, barren Sarah was able to become pregnant, old woman as she was at the time, because she believed the One who made a promise would do what he said. That’s how it happened that from one man’s dead and shriveled loins there are now people numbering into the millions. * * *
  • Hebrews 11:13 - Each one of these people of faith died not yet having in hand what was promised, but still believing. How did they do it? They saw it way off in the distance, waved their greeting, and accepted the fact that they were transients in this world. People who live this way make it plain that they are looking for their true home. If they were homesick for the old country, they could have gone back any time they wanted. But they were after a far better country than that—heaven country. You can see why God is so proud of them, and has a City waiting for them.
  • Hebrews 11:17 - By faith, Abraham, at the time of testing, offered Isaac back to God. Acting in faith, he was as ready to return the promised son, his only son, as he had been to receive him—and this after he had already been told, “Your descendants shall come from Isaac.” Abraham figured that if God wanted to, he could raise the dead. In a sense, that’s what happened when he received Isaac back, alive from off the altar.
  • Hebrews 11:20 - By an act of faith, Isaac reached into the future as he blessed Jacob and Esau.
  • Hebrews 11:21 - By an act of faith, Jacob on his deathbed blessed each of Joseph’s sons in turn, blessing them with God’s blessing, not his own—as he bowed worshipfully upon his staff.
  • Hebrews 11:22 - By an act of faith, Joseph, while dying, prophesied the exodus of Israel, and made arrangements for his own burial.
  • Hebrews 11:23 - By an act of faith, Moses’ parents hid him away for three months after his birth. They saw the child’s beauty, and they braved the king’s decree.
  • Hebrews 11:24 - By faith, Moses, when grown, refused the privileges of the Egyptian royal house. He chose a hard life with God’s people rather than an opportunistic soft life of sin with the oppressors. He valued suffering in the Messiah’s camp far greater than Egyptian wealth because he was looking ahead, anticipating the payoff. By an act of faith, he turned his heel on Egypt, indifferent to the king’s blind rage. He had his eye on the One no eye can see, and kept right on going. By an act of faith, he kept the Passover Feast and sprinkled Passover blood on each house so that the destroyer of the firstborn wouldn’t touch them.
  • Hebrews 11:29 - By an act of faith, Israel walked through the Red Sea on dry ground. The Egyptians tried it and drowned.
  • Hebrews 11:30 - By faith, the Israelites marched around the walls of Jericho for seven days, and the walls fell flat.
  • Hebrews 11:31 - By an act of faith, Rahab, the Jericho harlot, welcomed the spies and escaped the destruction that came on those who refused to trust God. * * *
  • Hebrews 11:32 - I could go on and on, but I’ve run out of time. There are so many more—Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, the prophets. . . . Through acts of faith, they toppled kingdoms, made justice work, took the promises for themselves. They were protected from lions, fires, and sword thrusts, turned disadvantage to advantage, won battles, routed alien armies. Women received their loved ones back from the dead. There were those who, under torture, refused to give in and go free, preferring something better: resurrection. Others braved abuse and whips, and, yes, chains and dungeons. We have stories of those who were stoned, sawed in two, murdered in cold blood; stories of vagrants wandering the earth in animal skins, homeless, friendless, powerless—the world didn’t deserve them!—making their way as best they could on the cruel edges of the world.
  • Hebrews 11:39 - Not one of these people, even though their lives of faith were exemplary, got their hands on what was promised. God had a better plan for us: that their faith and our faith would come together to make one completed whole, their lives of faith not complete apart from ours.
  • 2 Corinthians 3:12 - With that kind of hope to excite us, nothing holds us back. Unlike Moses, we have nothing to hide. Everything is out in the open with us. He wore a veil so the children of Israel wouldn’t notice that the glory was fading away—and they didn’t notice. They didn’t notice it then and they don’t notice it now, don’t notice that there’s nothing left behind that veil. Even today when the proclamations of that old, bankrupt government are read out, they can’t see through it. Only Christ can get rid of the veil so they can see for themselves that there’s nothing there.
Parallel VersesCross Reference
  • The Message - We’re not keeping this quiet, not on your life. Just like the psalmist who wrote, “I believed it, so I said it,” we say what we believe. And what we believe is that the One who raised up the Master Jesus will just as certainly raise us up with you, alive. Every detail works to your advantage and to God’s glory: more and more grace, more and more people, more and more praise!
  • 新标点和合本 - 但我们既有信心,正如经上记着说:“我因信,所以如此说话。”我们也信,所以也说话。
  • 和合本2010(上帝版-简体) - 但我们既然有从同一位灵而来的信心,正如经上记着:“我信,故我说话”,我们也信,所以也说话;
  • 和合本2010(神版-简体) - 但我们既然有从同一位灵而来的信心,正如经上记着:“我信,故我说话”,我们也信,所以也说话;
  • 当代译本 - 圣经上说:“我相信,所以才说。” 我们有同样的信心,我们也相信,所以才这样说。
  • 圣经新译本 - 经上记着说:“我信,所以我说话。”我们既然有同样的信心(“信心”原文作“信心的灵”),也就信,所以也说话,
  • 中文标准译本 - 照着经上所记的:“我信,故我说” ,我们既然有同一个信仰的灵,我们也就信,所以也就说,
  • 现代标点和合本 - 但我们既有信心,正如经上记着说:“我因信,所以如此说话”,我们也信,所以也说话。
  • 和合本(拼音版) - 但我们既有信心,正如经上记着说:“我因信,所以如此说话。” 我们也信,所以也说话。
  • New International Version - It is written: “I believed; therefore I have spoken.” Since we have that same spirit of faith, we also believe and therefore speak,
  • New International Reader's Version - It is written, “I believed, and so I have spoken.” ( Psalm 116:10 ) We have that same spirit of faith. So we also believe and speak.
  • English Standard Version - Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak,
  • New Living Translation - But we continue to preach because we have the same kind of faith the psalmist had when he said, “I believed in God, so I spoke.”
  • Christian Standard Bible - And since we have the same spirit of faith in keeping with what is written, I believed, therefore I spoke, we also believe, and therefore speak.
  • New American Standard Bible - But having the same spirit of faith, according to what is written: “I believed, therefore I spoke,” we also believe, therefore we also speak,
  • New King James Version - And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak,
  • Amplified Bible - Yet we have the same spirit of faith as he had, who wrote in Scripture, “I believed, therefore I spoke.” We also believe, therefore we also speak,
  • American Standard Version - But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, I believed, and therefore did I speak; we also believe, and therefore also we speak;
  • King James Version - We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
  • New English Translation - But since we have the same spirit of faith as that shown in what has been written, “I believed; therefore I spoke,” we also believe, therefore we also speak.
  • World English Bible - But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, “I believed, and therefore I spoke.” We also believe, and therefore we also speak;
  • 新標點和合本 - 但我們既有信心,正如經上記着說:「我因信,所以如此說話。」我們也信,所以也說話。
  • 和合本2010(上帝版-繁體) - 但我們既然有從同一位靈而來的信心,正如經上記着:「我信,故我說話」,我們也信,所以也說話;
  • 和合本2010(神版-繁體) - 但我們既然有從同一位靈而來的信心,正如經上記着:「我信,故我說話」,我們也信,所以也說話;
  • 當代譯本 - 聖經上說:「我相信,所以才說。」 我們有同樣的信心,我們也相信,所以才這樣說。
  • 聖經新譯本 - 經上記著說:“我信,所以我說話。”我們既然有同樣的信心(“信心”原文作“信心的靈”),也就信,所以也說話,
  • 呂振中譯本 - 照 經上 記着說:『我信了,所以說話了』; 如今 我們也這樣;我們既有這同一的「信仰之靈」,我們也就信了,所以也就說話了,
  • 中文標準譯本 - 照著經上所記的:「我信,故我說」 ,我們既然有同一個信仰的靈,我們也就信,所以也就說,
  • 現代標點和合本 - 但我們既有信心,正如經上記著說:「我因信,所以如此說話」,我們也信,所以也說話。
  • 文理和合譯本 - 如經云、我信故言、我儕既有此信、亦因信而言也、
  • 文理委辦譯本 - 經云、我信而言也、我有此心、故信而言、
  • 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 經載云、我因信故言、我既有此信心、亦因信而言、
  • 吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 雖然、經不云乎、『中心所信、不能不言。』吾人既具此信仰精神、亦曰中心所信、不能不言而已矣。
  • Nueva Versión Internacional - Escrito está: «Creí, y por eso hablé». Con ese mismo espíritu de fe también nosotros creemos, y por eso hablamos.
  • 현대인의 성경 - “내가 믿었으므로 말하였다” 는 성경 말씀대로 우리도 그와 같은 믿음의 정신으로 믿고 말합니다.
  • Новый Русский Перевод - А поскольку мы обладаем тем же духом веры – как написано: «Я верил, поэтому я и говорил» , – мы тоже верим и поэтому говорим.
  • Восточный перевод - В Писании сказано: «Я верил, поэтому я и говорил» . А поскольку мы обладаем тем же духом веры, мы тоже верим и поэтому говорим.
  • Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - В Писании сказано: «Я верил, поэтому я и говорил» . А поскольку мы обладаем тем же духом веры, мы тоже верим и поэтому говорим.
  • Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - В Писании сказано: «Я верил, поэтому я и говорил» . А поскольку мы обладаем тем же духом веры, мы тоже верим и поэтому говорим.
  • La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Nous sommes animés de ce même esprit de foi dont il est question dans cette parole de l’Ecriture : J’ai cru, voilà pourquoi j’ai parlé . Nous aussi nous croyons, et c’est pour cela que nous parlons.
  • リビングバイブル - 詩篇の作者は、「私は信じている。それゆえに語る」(116・10)と言いました。同じように私たちも、自分が神の守りの中にあることを確信して、信じていることを大胆に語ります。
  • Nestle Aland 28 - Ἔχοντες δὲ τὸ αὐτὸ πνεῦμα τῆς πίστεως κατὰ τὸ γεγραμμένον· ἐπίστευσα, διὸ ἐλάλησα, καὶ ἡμεῖς πιστεύομεν, διὸ καὶ λαλοῦμεν,
  • unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - ἔχοντες δὲ τὸ αὐτὸ πνεῦμα τῆς πίστεως, κατὰ τὸ γεγραμμένον, ἐπίστευσα, διὸ ἐλάλησα; καὶ ἡμεῖς πιστεύομεν, διὸ καὶ λαλοῦμεν,
  • Nova Versão Internacional - Está escrito: “Cri, por isso falei” . Com esse mesmo espírito de fé nós também cremos e, por isso, falamos,
  • Hoffnung für alle - Wir haben Gottes Geist, der uns auf Gott vertrauen lässt. Es ist derselbe Geist, der auch den Beter in der Heiligen Schrift erfüllte, als er sagte: »Ich vertraute auf Gott, deshalb redete ich!« Weil wir also an Jesus Christus glauben, müssen wir von ihm reden.
  • Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Chúng tôi nói điều chúng tôi tin, như tác giả Thi Thiên đã viết: “Tôi tin Đức Chúa Trời nên tôi nói.”
  • พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - มีเขียนไว้ว่า “ข้าพเจ้ายังเชื่อ ฉะนั้นข้าพเจ้าจึงได้พูด” ด้วยใจเชื่อแบบเดียวกันเราก็เชื่อเช่นนั้นจึงพูดออกมา
  • พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - เพราะ​เรา​มี​วิญญาณ​แห่ง​ความ​เชื่อ​เดียว​กัน ตาม​ที่​มี​บันทึก​ไว้​ว่า “ข้าพเจ้า​เชื่อ ดังนั้น​ข้าพเจ้า​จึง​ประกาศ” เรา​ก็​เชื่อ​ด้วย ดังนั้น​เรา​จึง​ประกาศ​ด้วย
  • 2 Peter 1:1 - I, Simon Peter, am a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ. I write this to you whose experience with God is as life-changing as ours, all due to our God’s straight dealing and the intervention of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ. Grace and peace to you many times over as you deepen in your experience with God and Jesus, our Master.
  • Proverbs 21:28 - A lying witness is unconvincing; a person who speaks truth is respected.
  • Hebrews 11:1 - The fundamental fact of existence is that this trust in God, this faith, is the firm foundation under everything that makes life worth living. It’s our handle on what we can’t see. The act of faith is what distinguished our ancestors, set them above the crowd.
  • Hebrews 11:3 - By faith, we see the world called into existence by God’s word, what we see created by what we don’t see.
  • Hebrews 11:4 - By an act of faith, Abel brought a better sacrifice to God than Cain. It was what he believed, not what he brought, that made the difference. That’s what God noticed and approved as righteous. After all these centuries, that belief continues to catch our notice.
  • Hebrews 11:5 - By an act of faith, Enoch skipped death completely. “They looked all over and couldn’t find him because God had taken him.” We know on the basis of reliable testimony that before he was taken “he pleased God.” It’s impossible to please God apart from faith. And why? Because anyone who wants to approach God must believe both that he exists and that he cares enough to respond to those who seek him.
  • Hebrews 11:7 - By faith, Noah built a ship in the middle of dry land. He was warned about something he couldn’t see, and acted on what he was told. The result? His family was saved. His act of faith drew a sharp line between the evil of the unbelieving world and the rightness of the believing world. As a result, Noah became intimate with God.
  • Hebrews 11:8 - By an act of faith, Abraham said yes to God’s call to travel to an unknown place that would become his home. When he left he had no idea where he was going. By an act of faith he lived in the country promised him, lived as a stranger camping in tents. Isaac and Jacob did the same, living under the same promise. Abraham did it by keeping his eye on an unseen city with real, eternal foundations—the City designed and built by God.
  • Hebrews 11:11 - By faith, barren Sarah was able to become pregnant, old woman as she was at the time, because she believed the One who made a promise would do what he said. That’s how it happened that from one man’s dead and shriveled loins there are now people numbering into the millions. * * *
  • Hebrews 11:13 - Each one of these people of faith died not yet having in hand what was promised, but still believing. How did they do it? They saw it way off in the distance, waved their greeting, and accepted the fact that they were transients in this world. People who live this way make it plain that they are looking for their true home. If they were homesick for the old country, they could have gone back any time they wanted. But they were after a far better country than that—heaven country. You can see why God is so proud of them, and has a City waiting for them.
  • Hebrews 11:17 - By faith, Abraham, at the time of testing, offered Isaac back to God. Acting in faith, he was as ready to return the promised son, his only son, as he had been to receive him—and this after he had already been told, “Your descendants shall come from Isaac.” Abraham figured that if God wanted to, he could raise the dead. In a sense, that’s what happened when he received Isaac back, alive from off the altar.
  • Hebrews 11:20 - By an act of faith, Isaac reached into the future as he blessed Jacob and Esau.
  • Hebrews 11:21 - By an act of faith, Jacob on his deathbed blessed each of Joseph’s sons in turn, blessing them with God’s blessing, not his own—as he bowed worshipfully upon his staff.
  • Hebrews 11:22 - By an act of faith, Joseph, while dying, prophesied the exodus of Israel, and made arrangements for his own burial.
  • Hebrews 11:23 - By an act of faith, Moses’ parents hid him away for three months after his birth. They saw the child’s beauty, and they braved the king’s decree.
  • Hebrews 11:24 - By faith, Moses, when grown, refused the privileges of the Egyptian royal house. He chose a hard life with God’s people rather than an opportunistic soft life of sin with the oppressors. He valued suffering in the Messiah’s camp far greater than Egyptian wealth because he was looking ahead, anticipating the payoff. By an act of faith, he turned his heel on Egypt, indifferent to the king’s blind rage. He had his eye on the One no eye can see, and kept right on going. By an act of faith, he kept the Passover Feast and sprinkled Passover blood on each house so that the destroyer of the firstborn wouldn’t touch them.
  • Hebrews 11:29 - By an act of faith, Israel walked through the Red Sea on dry ground. The Egyptians tried it and drowned.
  • Hebrews 11:30 - By faith, the Israelites marched around the walls of Jericho for seven days, and the walls fell flat.
  • Hebrews 11:31 - By an act of faith, Rahab, the Jericho harlot, welcomed the spies and escaped the destruction that came on those who refused to trust God. * * *
  • Hebrews 11:32 - I could go on and on, but I’ve run out of time. There are so many more—Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, the prophets. . . . Through acts of faith, they toppled kingdoms, made justice work, took the promises for themselves. They were protected from lions, fires, and sword thrusts, turned disadvantage to advantage, won battles, routed alien armies. Women received their loved ones back from the dead. There were those who, under torture, refused to give in and go free, preferring something better: resurrection. Others braved abuse and whips, and, yes, chains and dungeons. We have stories of those who were stoned, sawed in two, murdered in cold blood; stories of vagrants wandering the earth in animal skins, homeless, friendless, powerless—the world didn’t deserve them!—making their way as best they could on the cruel edges of the world.
  • Hebrews 11:39 - Not one of these people, even though their lives of faith were exemplary, got their hands on what was promised. God had a better plan for us: that their faith and our faith would come together to make one completed whole, their lives of faith not complete apart from ours.
  • 2 Corinthians 3:12 - With that kind of hope to excite us, nothing holds us back. Unlike Moses, we have nothing to hide. Everything is out in the open with us. He wore a veil so the children of Israel wouldn’t notice that the glory was fading away—and they didn’t notice. They didn’t notice it then and they don’t notice it now, don’t notice that there’s nothing left behind that veil. Even today when the proclamations of that old, bankrupt government are read out, they can’t see through it. Only Christ can get rid of the veil so they can see for themselves that there’s nothing there.
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