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

let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

But we are not of those who draw back to destruction, but of those who believe to the preserving of the soul.

testifying both to Jews, and also to Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

And now remain faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.

Paul, a bondservant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect and full true knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

that the testing of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found unto praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

I would have fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living.

Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why do you murmur within me? Hope in God; for I still praise Him for the deliverance coming from the presence of my God.

how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him,

For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold fast to the origin of our Foundation steadfast to the end,

lest if some Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we (not to mention you!) should be ashamed in this confident exulting.

What I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as it were, foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

that you do not become slothful, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us.

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters in within the veil,

By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible.

For we were saved by hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees?

But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.

while we do not contemplate the things which are seen, but the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him yet, believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,