KJ3 Literal Translation
Hebrews 11
1 What faith is. 6 Without faith we cannot please God.
1Now faith is the essence of things being hoped, the evidence of things not being seen.
2For by this the elders obtained witness.
3By faith we understand the ages to have been framed by a Word of God, so that the things being visible should not come into being out of things being seen.
4By faith Abel offered a greater sacrifice to God than Cain, by which he obtained witness to be righteous, God testifying over his gifts; and through it, having died, he yet speaks.
5By faith "Enoch" was translated so as not to see death, and "was not found, because God translated him." For before his translation, he had obtained witness to have been well-pleasing to God. Gen. 5:24
6But without faith it is impossible to be pleasing to God. For it is necessary for the one drawing near to God to believe that He is, and that He becomes a rewarder to the ones seeking Him out.
7By faith, Noah having been divinely warned by God about the things not yet being seen, being moved with fear, he prepared an ark for the salvation of his house; through which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness according to faith.
8Being called out by faith, Abraham obeyed to go forth to a place which he was going to receive for an inheritance; and he went out not understanding where he goes.
9By faith he temporarily resided as a foreigner into a land of promise, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the joint-heirs of the same promise;
10for he waited for a city having foundations, of which the builder and maker is God.
11Also by faith Sarah herself received power for laying down of seed even beyond the time of age, and gave birth; since she deemed the One having promised to be faithful.
12Therefore, even from one were generated seed, and these of one being as good as dead, even "as the stars of the heaven" in their fullness, and countless as sand by the lip of the sea". Gen. 15:5; 22:17
13These all died by way of faith, not having received the promises, but seeing them from afar, and being persuaded, and having welcomed them and confessed that they are strangers and sojourning ones on the earth.
14For the ones saying such things make clear that they seek a fatherland.
15And truly if they were mindful of the place from which they came out, they might have had opportunity to return.
16But now they stretch forth to a better, that is, a heavenly land. Therefore, God is not ashamed of them, for Him to be called their God; for He prepared a city for them.
17By faith, being tested, Abraham offered up Isaac; and the one receiving the promises was offering up the only begotten,
18as to whom it was said, "In Isaac your Seed shall be called" Gen. 21:12
19considering that; God was able to raise even from dead ones; from where indeed he obtained him in a parable.
20By faith concerning things to come Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau.
21By faith dying Jacob blessed each one of the sons of Joseph, and "worshiped on the top of his staff". LXX- Gen. 47:31
22Dying Joseph by faith made mention of the Exodus of the sons of Israel, and he gave orders about his bones.
23Having been generated, Moses was by faith hidden by his parents three months, because they saw the child was fair; and they did not fear the king's edict.
24Having become great, Moses by faith refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,
25having chosen rather to suffer mistreatment with the people of God than to have the temporary enjoyment of sin;
26having counted the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.
27By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the anger of the king; for he endured as seeing the Unseen One.
28By faith he has made the Passover, and the pouring forth of blood, that the one destroying the first-born might not touch them.
29By faith they passed through the Red Sea, as through dry land; by which attempt the Egyptians taking, they were swallowed.
30By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, having been circled during seven days.
31By faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with the ones having disobeyed, having received the spies with peace.
32And what more may I say? For the time will fail me telling about Gideon, Barak, and also Samson and Jephthah, and also David and Samuel, and the prophets,
33who through faith overcame kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
34quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouths of the sword, acquired power from weakness, became strong in war, armies of foreigners being made to bow.
35Women received their dead ones by resurrection; but others were beaten to death, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
36And others received trial of mockings and of scourgings; yea, more, of bonds and of prison:
37they were stoned; they were tried; they were sawn in two; they died by murder of sword; they went about in sheepskins and in goatskins, being in need, being afflicted, being tormented;
38of whom the world was not worthy, wandering in deserts, and mountains, and caves, and the holes of the earth.
39And having obtained witness through the faith, these all did not obtain the promise,
40God having foreseen something better concerning us, that they should not be perfected apart from us.
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