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For we have been evangelized as well as they: but the word which they heard did not profit them, because not contempered with faith in them who heard it.

Wherefore let us leave the beginning of the word of the Meshiha, and let us come unto perfection. Or why again another foundation lay you for repentance from dead works, and for faith which is in Aloha,

Let us, therefore, draw near with a confirmed heart, and the full security of faith, with our hearts sprinkled and cleansed from an evil conscience, and our body washed with pure waters;

But the just by the faith of me shall live; but if he become weary [fn] , my soul delighteth not in him.

39 But we are not of the weariness [fn] which bringeth [fn] to perdition, but of the faith which maketh us to possess our soul.

Now FAITH is the persuasion concerning things which are in hope, as if they were in reality [fn] , and a revelation of those which are not seen.

For by faith we perceive that the worlds were ordained by the word of Aloha, and (how) these (things) which are seen were from those which are not seen.

By faith Habel offered a sacrifice which was far better than that of Koen unto Aloha; and because of it there is respecting him a testimony that he was righteous; and Aloha gave witness concerning his oblation; and on account thereof also while dead he is speaking.

Through faith Hanak was translated [fn] , and did not taste death; nor was he found, because Aloha had translated him: for before that he would translate him, there was respecting him the testimony that he pleased Aloha.

But without faith it is not possible for man to please Aloha; for he who draweth near unto Aloha must believe that he is, and that of those who seek him he will be the rewarder.

By faith Nuch, when spoken with upon those things which had not been seen, feared, and made him the ark for the salvation of his family [fn] ; by which he condemned the world, and was an heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

By faith Abraham, when he was called, heard that he was to go forth to a place which he should receive for an inheritance; and he went out, while he knew not whither he was going.

By faith he was a sojourner in the land that was promised to him, as in an alien state, and dwelt in tabernacles with Ishok and Jakub, sons of the inheritance which was his by the promise:

By faith Saro, who was barren, received strength to conceive seed, and, which (thing) was not in the time of her years, gave birth (to a son); because she was sure that he who had promised to her was faithful.

In faith died these all, not having gotten their promise, but from afar had beheld it, and exulted in it, and confessed that strangers they were, and sojourners in the earth.

By faith Abraham offered Ishok in his temptation and his only-born he lifted upon the altar, even him whom he had received by the promise:

By faith in that which was to come, Ishok blessed Jakub and Isu.

By faith, when dying, Jakub blessed each of the sons of Jauseph; and worshipped upon the head of his staff.

By faith Jauseph, when dying, was mindful of the going forth of the sons of Israel [fn] , and commanded concerning his bones.

By faith the parents of Musha concealed him when he had been born three months, because they saw that he was a beautiful child; and they feared not the edict of the king.