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For to us also is the announcement, as well as to them: but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not mingled with the faith of those who heard it.

Therefore let us leave the commencement of the word of the Messiah, and let us proceed to the completion. Or will ye again lay another foundation for the repentance which is from dead works, and for the faith in God,

and that ye faint not; but that ye be emulators of them who by faith and patience have become heirs of the promise.

Let us, therefore draw near, with a true heart, and with the confidence of faith, being sprinkled as to our hearts, and pure from an evil conscience, and our body being washed with pure water.

Now the just by my faith, will live: but if he draw back, my soul will not have pleasure in him.

But we are not of that drawing-back, which leadeth to perdition; but of that faith, which maketh us possess our soul.

Now faith is the persuasion of the things that are in hope, as if they were in act; and [fn] the manifestness of the things not seen.

For by faith, we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God; and that things seen, originated from those that are not seen.

By faith, Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than that of Cain; and on account of it, he is testified of that he was righteous, and God bore testimony to his offering; and in consequence thereof, though dead he yet speaketh.

By faith, Enoch was translated, and did not taste death; and he was not found, because God had translated him: for, before he translated him, there was testimony of him, that he pleased God.

But, without faith, a man cannot please God. For he that draweth near to God, must believe his existence, and that he will recompense those who seek him.

By faith Noah, when he was told of things not seen, feared; and he made himself an ark, for the life of his household; whereby he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed, and departed to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance: and he departed, while he knew not whither he was going.

By faith, he became a resident in the land that was promised him, as in a foreign land; and abode in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.

By faith, Sarah also, who was barren, acquired energy to receive seed; and, out of the time of her years, she brought forth; because she firmly believed, that he was faithful who had promised her.

All these died in faith, and received not their promise; but they saw it afar off, and rejoiced in it; and they confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

By faith Abraham, in his trial, offered up Isaac; and he laid on the altar his only son, whom he had received by promise.

By faith in what was to be, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau.

By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and bowed himself on the top of his staff.

By faith Joseph, when dying, was mindful of the departure of the children of Israel, and gave direction concerning his bones.